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One night, it’s the Campbell Brothers foot-stomping their way through a rocking, bluesy set of their “sacred steel” gospel music. Another it’s MIT’s Evan Ziporyn’s cello concerto version of David Bowie’s “Blackstar” with Maya Beiser and a light and projection show. Or a RISE concert with the sensuous singing of Jazzmeia Horn and local hip-hop artist Latrell James.
Then there are the Sunday afternoon concerts that this year featured a traversal of Leonard Bernstein’s lesser-known chamber work, Gleb Ivanov’s performance of all the Prokofiev piano sonatas and one of the most fascinating chamber concerts I’ve ever seen, “City of Women,” curated by Helga Davis.
These are some of the highlights of an eclectic first season of music programming at Calderwood Hall under George Steel, Abrams Curator of Music at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. A former assistant to Bernstein and a composer-conductor in his own right, the boyish-looking 52-year-old exudes a youthful openness to all kinds of music. His predecessor, Scott Nickrenz, was no slouch when it came to creative programming, either, from 1990 to 2017. Nickrenz programmed much of this year’s fall concerts, too, with Steel tweaking along the way before putting his stamp on the spring concerts.
It’s Steel, who came in as visiting curator in 2017, in control now, with an adventurous, multicultural mix of genres that focuses on the classical but has a more sustained outreach to different kinds of performance as well as to underappreciated composers and underserved communities. Steel seems dead serious about building on the success of the Gardner’s classical concerts to make the museum’s audience younger and more diverse.
Every arts administrator talks that talk these days, but Steel has already made his presence felt with the Campbell Brothers’ bluesy gospel performance and Davis’ “City of Women” interdisciplinary concert that featured a smorgasbord of poets, dancers, classical and hip-hop artists all riffing on the current Botticelli exhibit. In addition, Steel hired Catherine Morris, founder of the Boston Art & Music Soul Festival, AKA BAMS Fest, as manager of public programs (she's also one of The ARTery 25, millennials of color impacting Boston's arts and culture scene).
Morris will be particularly concerned with reaching a younger, multicultural demographic, with a greater emphasis on women artists. "The legacy of Isabella herself is that she really supported other women and I’m always trying to make sure the artists we bring in, the content of their character and what they stand for, really resonates with Isabella personally. The way we have to go about it now is humanizing the experience, touching on social issues, or personal issues that folks can interpret through song and performance that I think will move forward the museum in attracting younger audiences.”
Steel wants every performer at the Gardner to feature either a woman or person of color among the composers they’re performing unless they’re doing a concert devoted to one composer.
Steel's presence hasn't been received well with all. The next concert in the highly-regarded RISE series, curated by Shea Rose and Simone Scazzocchio, will be its last. While Steel says that he tells curators to program "the one thing you think I'll say no to" and to program passionately, that was not the experience of Scazzocchio and Rose, who feel that Steel was not respectful toward them and their curatorial process. "We were supposed to collaborate on music and how to reach diverse audiences," they said in a joint email. "We had different values about diversity, contrasting taste in music, and not the same idea of what 'collaboration' means."
Steel, who put all of the Thursday night concerts under the aegis of Morris, said he was taken aback by Scazzocchio and Rose's comments. "RISE has been terrific and Shea and Simone have done a wonderful job," says Steel. "I can say we are in the process of expanding Thursday night programs. ... I think that various parts of the Thursday programs weren't really together and we wanted to bring them together under [Morris'] artistic vision."
It's a shame that the Gardner is losing RISE. While Morris' tastes might be similar, it wouldn't have killed the museum to cut two people who've done such a fine job some slack and let them go their own way, particularly if the last Jazzmeia Horn-Latrell James concert is any indication of Rose and Scazzocchio's talents. Sometimes multiple sensibilities are better than one, particularly when the curators have such passionate taste.
Still, if Steel is to be judged by over-all Gardner programming, his other artistic choices have been pretty terrific.
Isabella Stewart Gardner, herself, began bringing in musicians and other artists in 1903, making the Gardner's concert series the oldest museum-based musical program in the country. “I think because Isabella herself wanted to embrace dance and music and painting and living and horticulture and architecture, that means this museum has in its DNA a kind of interdisciplinary approach to performance and to art that’s very deeply connected.”
Steel’s résumé is as eclectic as his musical tastes. He ran a similar program to the Gardner’s at Columbia’s Miller Theater before becoming general manager and artistic director of the failing New York City Opera from 2009 to its demise in 2013. (There are mixed opinions of his role in the loss of "the people's opera." The New York Times' coverage largely gave him a pass while the Wall Street Journal opera critic was highly critical of Steel in "Mad Scenes and Exit Arias.")
Steel is also a composer, conductor, teacher and singer. One of his chief mentors was Bernstein, so eclecticism runs deep in his training. Steel inherited much of the fall programming from Nickrenz, but asked the various groups and soloists to add something from Bernstein for his centennial this season. He also curated a terrific program of Bernstein’s songs that included a much more convincing take on “Arias & Barcarolles” than the Boston Lyric Opera’s before he conducted a fascinating interview with Lenny’s daughter Jamie.
He says Bernstein was “a gigantic influence.” He met him singing the conductor-composer’s Third Symphony in 1981. In 1988 he collaborated with Bernstein on “Missa Brevis.” Says Steel, “His sense of fun, his love of music of every kind, his social conscience, his passionate music-making made a huge impact on the way I write music.”
I attended several concerts over the winter and spring and had a blast at all of them. Among the Sunday afternoon classical concerts, A Far Cry featured artist in residence Jessica Myer’s riffing off of a museum treasure, Whistler' "Nocturne, Blue and Silver: Battersea Reach," a Bernstein segment from “Serenade” and a piece by the late African-American composer William Grant Still before the group, itself the ensemble in residence, launched into the crowd-pleasing “Pictures at an Exhibition.” The Bernstein song cycle a few weeks later accompanied by selections from his musicals, followed by Steel’s interview with Bernstein’s daughter, Jamie, was one of the highlights of the past Bernstein centennial.
Those concerts are in my classical wheelhouse. What you want from a good curator, or DJ, is exposure to works that you wouldn’t have heard otherwise. Perhaps more memorable for me than the classical concerts were a pair of Thursday evening concerts — one with the Campbell Brothers titled “Sacred Steel: African-American Gospel Music” with electric and steel guitars, and the recent RISE concert with local hip-hop artist Latrell James leading into the lustrous jazz vocals of Jazzmeia Horn.
Morris’ first Thursday night concert will feature Afro-Native singer-songwriter Maimouna Youssef, also known as Mumu Fresh. Youssef, says Morris, “combines elements of Native American music with soul and funk, jazz but she really speaks to a younger demographic, particularly women."
Here’s a collaboration with DJ Dummy:
There’s still a way to go in seeing the traditional audience mesh with a younger vibe and vice versa. Attempts to get the older Campbell Brothers audience up and dancing were largely a failure and you don’t see a lot of people of color at the more traditional classical concerts.
But that’s not always the case. The RISE concert was a delightful demographic mix that made everyone feel welcome. Ditto for the "City of Women” concert. The hope is that someone who’s into hip-hop will make a connection to Botticelli and vice versa.
“Our job,” says Steel, “is to be professional, trustworthy and knowledgeable curators … you might find music that's comfortable and familiar, [and other] music you find a little too edgy … but we must move forward.”
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It happens every month without fail. When payday rolls around on the third Friday of the month, your bank account looks healthy – filled with money to spare, even. With a few easy taps on your banking app, you’ve sent off your rent, covered your electric bill, and paid off a little of your credit card debt. You decide it will be alright if you splurge a little on dinner, a movie, a maybe even a quick weekend trip to the local shopping center. A week or so later, you absentmindedly swipe open your banking app – and stare in disbelief. Your bank balance is practically anemic. Where did all of your money go?
Your morning Starbucks latte could be costing you. Crunch the numbers: a venti latte costs roughly $4 a pop. If you multiply that times the five days in a work week, you find yourself with a coffee bill of $20 a week, or a full $80 a month. In other words, the money you spend on coffee alone could have covered your entire grocery bill for a month. Small expenses add up – so avoid making impulse purchases. If you think you might be splurging just a little too often, check! At the end of the month, compile all of your card charges and assess how much you spent on necessary items or services (i.e., rent, food, gas) versus how much you spent on unnecessary treats or luxuries. You might just find yourself reconsidering your coffee budget afterwards.
Paying Too Many Subscriptions
Do you really need Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, and HBO Go? Probably not. Signing onto a service may seem simple and cheap when you’re in the free trial period, but those monthly fees accumulate quickly. Do an inventory of the subscriptions you have and decide which ones you can afford to cut ties with.
Living on Credit
Having a credit card doesn’t give you access to free money! Credit card companies make their enormous profits off of people who make minimum payments and allow interest to accrue. Just think – by leaving the expense of a single small item on your balance, you could end up paying out twice the original price in interest and fees. Believing in the “free money” myth could cost you money; living on credit could leave you bankrupt.
Overspending on Housing
You may want the in-building gym or slickly designed kitchen – but can you afford it? According to a report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, over one-third of all American households spend 30% or more of their take-home pay on housing expenses. Most financial advisors set the expense ceiling for rent at 30% of a person’s take-home pay; however, even this might be too high for someone struggling to pay off hefty student loans or provide for a family. Don’t let a nice apartment or charming home lure you deeper into debt. If you do, you might find yourself needing to sacrifice your personal life and stay home far more than you ever wanted to.
“Keeping Up” With Others
If all of your friends leapt into crippling debt, would you follow? The answer might not be as easy as you think. Sometimes, it can be difficult to say no to a weekend trip or fancy dinner – even if you know that the expense would eat into your budget for the month. Make a habit of thinking your budget first, and fun second – or risk losing out on a significant chunk of potential savings. | <urn:uuid:ff7ecc3b-e0e1-4b82-a5e3-21230183eb8c> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | http://jbowmanaccountant.info/2018/03/13/are-you-making-these-common-finance-mistakes/ | 2019-01-17T04:19:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583658702.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20190117041621-20190117063621-00437.warc.gz | en | 0.947405 | 725 |
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Here is a reminder about the W2 reporting requirements attached to the Affordable Care Act and employer sponsored group health plans.
Many small employers that pay at least half of the premiums for employee health insurance coverage under a qualifying arrangement may be eligible for the small business health care tax credit. This credit can enable small businesses and small tax-exempt organizations to offer health insurance coverage for the first time. It also helps those already offering health insurance coverage to maintain the coverage they already have. The credit is specifically targeted to help small businesses and tax-exempt organizations that primarily employ 25 or fewer workers with average income of $50,000 or less.
Here is what small employers need to know so they don’t miss out on the credit for tax year 2010:
- Hurricane Irene, Tropical Storm Lee and other recent disaster-related tax relief postponed certain tax filing and payment deadlines to Oct. 31, 2011. Qualifying businesses affected by these natural disasters still have time to file and claim the small employer health care credit on Form 8941 and claim it as part of the general business credit on Form 3800, which they would include with their tax return. For more information on the disaster relief visit IRS.gov.
- Sole proprietors who file Form 1040, Partners and S-corporation shareholders who report their income on Form 1040 and had requested an extension have until Oct. 17 to complete their returns. They would also use Form 8941 to calculate the small employer health care credit and claim it as a general business credit on Form 3800, reflected on line 53 of Form 1040.
- Tax-exempt organizations that file on a calendar year basis and requested an extension to file to Nov. 15 can use Form 8941 and then claim the credit on Form 990-T, Line 44f.
- Businesses who have already filed can still claim the credit. For small businesses that have already filed and later determine they are eligible for the credit, they can always file an amended 2010 tax return. Corporations use Form 1120X and individual sole proprietors use Form 1040X.
- Businesses that couldn’t use the credit in 2010 may be eligible to claim it in future years. Some businesses that already locked into health insurance plan structures and contributions for 2010 may not have had the opportunity to make any needed adjustments to qualify for the credit for 2010. So these businesses may be eligible to claim the credit on 2011 returns or in years beyond. Small employers can claim the credit for 2010 through 2013 and for two additional years beginning in 2014.
For tax years 2010 to 2013, the maximum credit for eligible small business employers is 35 percent of premiums paid and for eligible tax-exempt employers the maximum credit is 25 percent of premiums paid. Beginning in 2014, the maximum tax credit will go up to 50 percent of premiums paid by eligible small business employers and 35 percent of premiums paid by eligible tax-exempt organizations.
Additional information about eligibility requirements and calculating the credit can be found on the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit for Small Employers page of IRS.gov.
- Form 8941, Credit for Small Employer Health Insurance Premiums (PDF)
- Form 3800, General Business Credit (PDF)
- Small Business Health Care Tax Credit for Small Employers
By Stacie Kitts, CPA
There are so many people looking for work, I agree it’s was a good idea to remind people that there is a tax deduction waiting for taxpayers. Although – I think some of the restrictions here are totally bogus as it applies to this economy. I think the restrictions should be lifted. But that’s just my opinion.
Here are seven things the IRS wants you to know about deducting costs related to your job search.
- To qualify for a deduction, the expenses must be spent on a job search in your current occupation. You may not deduct expenses you incur while looking for a job in a new occupation. [This restriction irks me. Rather than wasting away on unemployment, any attempt to get a job should be rewarded]
- You can deduct employment and outplacement agency fees you pay while looking for a job in your present occupation. If your employer pays you back in a later year for employment agency fees, you must include the amount you receive in your gross income, up to the amount of your tax benefit in the earlier year.
- You can deduct amounts you spend for preparing and mailing copies of your résumé to prospective employers as long as you are looking for a new job in your present occupation.
- If you travel to an area to look for a new job in your present occupation, you may be able to deduct travel expenses to and from the area. You can only deduct the travel expenses if the trip is primarily to look for a new job. The amount of time you spend on personal activity compared to the amount of time you spend looking for work is important in determining whether the trip is primarily personal or is primarily to look for a new job.
- You cannot deduct job search expenses if there was a substantial break between the end of your last job and the time you begin looking for a new one. [In this economy, I think this restriction is stupid also]
- You cannot deduct job search expenses if you are looking for a job for the first time. [Okay well maybe I can go along with this one]
- The amount of job search expenses that you can claim on your tax return is limited. You can claim the amount that is more than 2 percent of your adjusted gross income. You figure your deduction on Schedule A. [bogus – these should not be limited – all attempts to find employment – again in this economy – in my opinion should be fully deductible]
IRS Patrol – IRS Announces New Voluntary Worker Classification Settlement Program; Past Payroll Tax Relief Provided to Employers Who Reclassify Their Workers as Employees
If you or your clients think there might be an issue with the classification of employees – that is, are your workers independent contractors or not, now is the time to look into correction.
WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service launched a new program that will enable many employers to resolve past worker classification issues and achieve certainty under the tax law at a low cost by voluntarily reclassifying their workers.
This new program will allow employers the opportunity to get into compliance by making a minimal payment covering past payroll tax obligations rather than waiting for an IRS audit.
This is part of a larger “Fresh Start” initiative at the IRS to help taxpayers and businesses address their tax responsibilities.
“This settlement program provides certainty and relief to employers in an important area,” said IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. “This is part of a wider effort to help taxpayers and businesses to help give them a fresh start with their tax obligations.”
The new Voluntary Classification Settlement Program (VCSP) is designed to increase tax compliance and reduce burden for employers by providing greater certainty for employers, workers and the government. Under the program, eligible employers can obtain substantial relief from federal payroll taxes they may have owed for the past, if they prospectively treat workers as employees. The VCSP is available to many businesses, tax-exempt organizations and government entities that currently erroneously treat their workers or a class or group of workers as nonemployees or independent contractors, and now want to correctly treat these workers as employees.
To be eligible, an applicant must:
- • Consistently have treated the workers in the past as nonemployees,
- • Have filed all required Forms 1099 for the workers for the previous three years
- • Not currently be under audit by the IRS, the Department of Labor or a state agency concerning the classification of these workers
Interested employers can apply for the program by filing Form 8952, Application for Voluntary Classification Settlement Program, at least 60 days before they want to begin treating the workers as employees.
Employers accepted into the program will pay an amount effectively equaling just over one percent of the wages paid to the reclassified workers for the past year. No interest or penalties will be due, and the employers will not be audited on payroll taxes related to these workers for prior years. Participating employers will, for the first three years under the program, be subject to a special six-year statute of limitations, rather than the usual three years that generally applies to payroll taxes.
- IRS Announces – Voluntary Classification Settlement Program (alliancepayroll.wordpress.com)
- IRS Gives Employers a Break on Payrolls (online.wsj.com)
- IRS targets employers on withholding tax (huffingtonpost.com)
- IRS Gives Employers a Break on Payrolls (online.wsj.com)
Are you self-employed? Did you know you have many of the same options to save for retirement on a tax-deferred basis as employees participating in company plans?
Here are highlights of a few of your retirement plan options.
Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLE IRA Plan)
- You can put all your net earnings from self-employment in the plan: up to $11,500 (plus an additional $2,500 if you’re 50 or older) in salary reduction contributions and either a 2% fixed contribution or a 3% matching contribution.
- Establish the plan:
- Form 5305-SIMPLE, Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees of Small Employers (SIMPLE) – for Use With a Designated Financial Institution,
- Form 5304-SIMPLE, Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees of Small Employers (SIMPLE) – Not for Use With a Designated Financial Institution, or
- an IRS-approved “prototype SIMPLE IRA plan” offered by many mutual funds, banks and other financial institutions, and by plan administration companies; and
- open a SIMPLE IRA through a bank or another financial institution.
- Set up a SIMPLE IRA plan at any time January 1 through October 1. If you became self-employed after October 1, you can set up a SIMPLE IRA plan for the year as soon as administratively feasible after your business starts.
Simplified Employee Pension (SEP)
Contribute as much as 25% of your net earnings from self-employment (not including contributions for yourself), up to $49,000.
- Establish the plan:
- Form 5305-SEP, Simplified Employee Pension – Individual Retirement Accounts Contribution Agreement, or
- an IRS-approved “prototype SEP plan” offered by many mutual funds, banks and other financial institutions, and by plan administration companies; and
- open a SEP-IRA through a bank or other financial institution.
Set up the SEP plan for a year as late as the due date (including extensions) of your income tax return for that year.
- Make salary deferrals up to $16,500 (plus an additional $5,500 if you’re 50 or older) of your compensation from the business either on a pre-tax basis or as a designated Roth contribution.
- Contribute up to an additional 25% of your net earnings from self-employment (not including contributions for yourself), up to $49,000 including salary deferrals.
- Tailor the plan to allow you access to the money in the plan through loans and hardship distributions.
- A one-participant 401(k) plan is sometimes referred to as a “solo-401(k),” “individual 401(k)” or “uni-401(k).” It is generally the same as other 401(k) plans, but because there are no other employees, other than the spouse, that work for the business, it is exempt from discrimination testing.
Other Defined Contribution Plans
- Profit-sharing plan: allows you to decide how much to contribute on an annual basis, up to 25% of compensation (not including contributions for yourself) or $49,000.
- Money purchase plan: requires you to contribute a fixed percentage of your income every year, up to 25% of compensation (not including contributions for yourself), according to a formula stated in the plan.
Traditional pension plan with a stated annual benefit you will receive at retirement, usually based on salary and years of service.
Benefit may also be defined based on a cash balance formula in a hypothetical individual account (a cash balance plan).
Maximum annual benefit can be up to $195,000.
Contributions are calculated by an actuary based on the benefit you set and other factors (your age, expected returns on plan investments, etc.); no other annual contribution limit applies.
Retirement plans for self-employed people were formerly referred to as “Keogh plans” after the law that first allowed unincorporated businesses to sponsor retirement plans. Since the law no longer distinguishes between corporate and other plan sponsors, the term is seldom used.
Dollar figures are for 2011 and are subject to annual cost-of-living adjustments.
- Self Directed Brokerage Accounts (401k-plan-blog.com)
- SBO 401K for Partnership Businesses: Easy Method of Making Retirement Contributions (401k-plan-blog.com)
- 100% Contributions with Solo 401k (401k-plan-blog.com)
By Stacie Kitts, CPA
When I read a story about someone who appears to have been messing with the tax system for some thirty years, it makes me wonder…..who in the heck did their taxes, and why did it take so long to get busted.
The Orange County District Attorney is reporting that James and Dorothy Klinger, owners of Jamo’s Gardening and Modern Tree Services Inc. are charged with 28 counts of failing to file a return with intent to evade tax, 28 counts of willful failure to pay taxes, and some felony counts for lying about their business to a worker’s compensation insurance company.
These two are looking at spending the rest of their lives in prison if convicted.
They appear to have used an old school tax crook technique and kept two sets of books. You know, one that showed the “real” dollars and one that was a work of fiction.
Was it worth it? You decide….
They are accused of underreporting about $3.6 million in income and $3 million in wages. This translates to about 1.9 million that should have been paid over in taxes (give or take) that they got to keep – for a little while anyway.
I don’t know about you, but $2 million isn’t enough money to risk a 40 year prison sentence. Am I Right!?
- Anonymously ‘squeal’ on tax cheats (dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com)
- Top 10 tax tips from CPAs, also known as Letterman’s annual spoofing of taxes (dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com)
- IRS Reminds Taxpayers How To Provide Earthquake Relief For Japan (staciesmoretaxtips.wordpress.com)
- 2011 Depreciation Deduction Limitations – (and a classic video from The Cars) (staciesmoretaxtips.wordpress.com)
Another Dreaded IRS Reporting Requirement Gets Interim Guidance Today. Health Coverage Reporting Requirement on Form W2
By Stacie Clifford Kitts, CPA
Well here it is, guidance on more reporting requirements. If you are an employer providing health insurance coverage for your employees, Good For You. And….. now the IRS wants to track it. So add this to the long list of other reporting requirements dear business owners. If you file 250 or more W2’s, starting in 2012 you will need to report employee health insurance premiums on Form w2. Employers with less than 250 W2’s are exempt until further notice. I guess there is always a small sliver of a silver lining.
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today issued interim guidance to employers on informational reporting on each employee’s annual Form W-2 of the cost of the health insurance coverage they sponsor for employees. The IRS is also requesting comments on this interim guidance. The IRS emphasized that this new reporting to employees is for their information only, to inform them of the cost of their health coverage, and does not cause excludable employer-provided health coverage to become taxable; employer-provided health coverage continues to be excludable from an employee’s income, and is not taxable.
The Affordable Care Act provides that employers are required to report the cost of employer-provided health care coverage on the Form W-2. Notice 2010-69, issued last fall, made this requirement optional for all employers for the 2011 Forms W-2 (generally furnished to employees in January 2012). In today’s guidance, the IRS provided further relief for smaller employers (those filing fewer than 250 W-2 forms) by making this requirement optional for them at least for 2012 (i.e., for 2012 Forms W-2 that generally would be furnished to employees in January 2013) and continuing this optional treatment for smaller employers until further guidance is issued.
Using a question-and-answer format, Notice 2011-28 also provides guidance for employers that are subject to this requirement for the 2012 Forms W-2 and those that choose to voluntarily comply with it for either 2011 or 2012. The notice includes information on how to report, what coverage to include and how to determine the cost of the coverage.
IRS Patrol: IRS Releases Draft W-2 Form for 2011; Announces Relief for Employers (Optional Reporting of the Cost of Health Coverage in 2011)
Stacie says: Doesn’t good news come in three’s? Well here is good news number two for the day – the IRS announced that it will defer the new requirement for employers to report the cost of coverage under an employer-sponsored group health plan. The reporting is now optional in 2011.
WASHINGTON — The IRS today issued a draft Form W-2 for 2011, which employers use to report wages and employee tax withholding. The IRS also announced that it will defer the new requirement for employers to report the cost of coverage under an employer-sponsored group health plan, making that reporting by employers optional in 2011.
The draft Form W-2 includes the codes that employers may use to report the cost of coverage under an employer-sponsored group health plan. The Treasury Department and the IRS have determined that this relief is necessary to provide employers the time they need to make changes to their payroll systems or procedures in preparation for compliance with the new reporting requirement. The IRS will be publishing guidance on the new requirement later this year.
Although reporting the cost of coverage will be optional with respect to 2011, the IRS continues to stress that the amounts reportable are not taxable. Included in the Affordable Care Act passed by Congress in March, the new reporting requirement is intended to be informational only, and to provide employees with greater transparency into overall health care costs. | <urn:uuid:7824e07e-60b7-40e1-81b9-887546415675> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | https://staciesmoretaxtips.com/tag/employment/ | 2020-08-15T17:45:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439740929.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20200815154632-20200815184632-00372.warc.gz | en | 0.95022 | 3,971 |
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Isringhausen Notches Save No.7, But It's Not Pretty
The little letter after Jason Isringhausen's name in the boxscore is an 'S' but that hardly tells the story. Isringhausen got away with another save for the Cardinals Saturday as he walked the bases loaded but was rescued by his defense executing a double play. Isringhausen currently sports a 6.00 ERA with two losses and has given up three homers after surrendering only four all last year. Observers say Isringhausen's fastball has flatened out, but Isringhausen, whose past injuries are long behind him, believes that for some reason he just can't make the ball go where he wants it to go, and it often winds up splitting the plate as though he was throwing batting practice. Manager Tony LaRussa will undoubtedly stick with Isringhausen for awhile yet, but one wonders how soon it will be before necessity dictates that he starts looking at bullpen lefty Randy Flores or set-up man Braden Looper to help out from time to time in the ninth inning. | <urn:uuid:bbf7e978-897a-4145-933d-85fc1be6af69> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | http://www.mlbnewsonline.com/2006/04/isringhausen-notches-save-no7-but-its.html | 2019-01-20T18:09:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583728901.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20190120163942-20190120185942-00165.warc.gz | en | 0.970821 | 234 |
Internet: €7 a day (Subject to availability). Parking: €15 per night (Subject to availability). Pets: €6 per day or €30 per week (up to 10Kg).
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A building with 70 apartments located at 145, Diputación avenue, between Salou and Cambrils, the avenue, which seperates the cities from the beach and a walkway connecting both of them. In the nearby area you can find a great variety of shops, pubs, restaurants and a bus stop in the Salou-Cambrils centre at only a few minutes walk.
The building also has a beautiful, spacious swimming pool for adults and children (opened in high season), surrounded by a large terrace and a small playground for children. The apartments are suitable for 2-4 and 4-6 people. | <urn:uuid:c2cc9714-e626-4d21-b228-1ff5ad755684> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://www.rentalmar.com/en/cambrils-apartments/apartments-pins-marina/ | 2018-01-19T13:50:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084887981.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20180119125144-20180119145144-00352.warc.gz | en | 0.943822 | 192 |
Conference of the Islamic Council of New England
“Guiding Light: Defining the Future of Our Children as Muslim Youth in Western Societies”
University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
April 27, 2002
(Profiled by Discover The Networks in April 2009)
On April 27, 2002 the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth presented a conference titled “Guiding Light: Defining the Future of Our Children as Muslim Youth in Western Societies,” with the goal of promoting “cultural diversity and pluralism” on the Dartmouth campus. The conference was sponsored by the Islamic Council of New England, and the featured speakers included the following professors, scholars, and activists:
Tariq Ramadan is a Swiss-born philosophy professor currently based in France. When speaking to Western audiences, Ramadan preaches an amicable message of unity and mutual respect. But to Arabic-speaking audiences, he vents his deep-seated hatred of the West and his endorsement of Wahhabism, the most extreme form of Islam. Moreover, Ramadan has numerous connections to fundamentalist Islamic militants and is suspected by U.S. intelligence agencies of maintaining ties with the terrorist group al Qaeda.
Ramadan's maternal grandfather was Hasan al-Banna, who in 1928 founded the Muslim Brotherhood. Ramadan's father, Said Ramadan, led the Brotherhood throughout the 1950s and then was exiled from Egypt to Switzerland, where Tariq was born in September 1962.
In February 2004 Ramadan was offered a tenured position as Luce Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Building at the University of Notre Dame. Five months later, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revoked Ramadan's work visa, thereby preventing him from remaining in the United States. DHS spokesman Russ Knocke explained that the visa revocation was in accordance with a law which denies entry to foreigners who have used a "position of prominence within any country to endorse or espouse terrorist activity." For details about that activity, click here.
Shahina Siddiqui is the Executive Director of the Islamic Social Services Association (ISSA) of the United States and Canada, a charitable organization which seeks “to promote awareness of the mental health, social welfare and general family issues impacting Muslims in particular and the larger Canadian society.”
Siddiqui also sits on the Advisory Board of the Canadian branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR is a civil rights group partially funded by Saudi Wahhabi establishment; the organization’s leadership has numerous ties to Islamic extremism and terrorism. Siddiqui is the author of the CAIR-distributed brochure titled Women Friendly Mosques and Community Centers: Working Together to Reclaim Our Heritage. In that publication, Siddiqui says the “project would not have been possible” without the “expertise, feedback and support” of Amina McCloud, Zaid Shakir, and Jamal Badawi. In 2004 Badawi issued a fatwa for IslamOnline, outlining six different circumstances under which a wife may properly be beaten when she “persists in bad habits.”
In 1997 Siddiqui served as a co-director of an “Educational Retreat” held at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Also helping to direct the event was Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Siddiqui has served as a columnist for both the Winnipeg Sun and Calgary Sun. In November, 2000 she penned a piece titled "No Peace in Islam Without Justice" in which she decried the alleged maltreatment of Muslims in both the Middle East and Canada:“The recent events in the Middle East have once again made the Muslim community in Canada vulnerable to anti-Islam propaganda and Islam-phobic stereo typing. While the Palestinians find themselves under siege by the Israeli army, the Muslims in Canada are also besieged by the religious bigotry being presented mostly in the print media.”In the same piece, Siddiqui justified Palestinian rage as the obvious result of Israeli tyranny; she denounced the partitioning of land between Israeli Jews and Palestinians:“The anger of the Palestinians is a natural consequence of years of persecution and oppression. The Palestinians feel alone and desperate since they perceive the world community to be oblivious to their pain and suffering... Every door has been shut in their face and every avenue to reach a just resolution has been compromised by political and economic interests. When, to appease the Israeli extremist, we turn a blind eye to the illegal settlements being established on confiscated Palestinian land, and when we insist that they agree to 90% of 20% of their land as a generous offer we must take a moment to reflect would this be good enough for us?”In February 2004 Siddiqui filed a complaint of racism with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission against the Jewish service organization, B'nai Brith Canada. The complaint stemmed from the fact that B'nai Brith had co-sponsored a conference for law-enforcement and emergency personnel in which Muslims were (in Siddiqui’s opinion) unfairly maligned as being prone to engage in terrorism. Siddiqui did not attend the conference but relied on reports from unnamed sources.Abdur Raheem Green
A British convert to Islam, Abdur Raheem Green is an Islamic lecturer and co-director of the public relations firm Green & Chambers Consulting, a Muslim-community-based “social enterprise created to … provide organizations with holistic outsourced business solutions in Branding and Design, Marketing, Fundraising and Public Relations.”
Green insists that he is a moderate, though he was once quoted as saying: "Islam teaches its followers to seek death on the battle field, [and] dying whilst fighting jihad is one of the surest ways to paradise and Allah's good pleasure." He also had asserted that Muslims and Westerners “cannot live peaceably together.” For having made these statements, Green has been placed on an international no-fly list and his travels have been restricted.
In August 2005 Green was scheduled to speak at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, but the talk was cancelled when it was learned that he had been refused entry to Brisbane, Australia for a one-hour layover.
Green has said that “jihad is one of the surest ways to paradise and Allah's good pleasure.” He also has openly condemned Christianity and has stated that non-Muslim Australians are “evil people.”
Ingrid Mattson is President of the Islamic Society of North America's (ISNA) United States office. She is also a professor at the MacDonald Center for Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, where she serves as Director of Islamic Chaplaincy.
In a talk she delivered at a 2000 ISNA Conference in Canada, Mattson lauded the work of Islamic revivalist and jihadist Maulana Abul A'la Maududi, an author who had written, approvingly, in his 1980 book Jihad in Islam:“Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam regardless of the country or the Nation which rules it … Islam does not intend to confine this revolution to a single State or a few countries; the aim of Islam is to bring about a universal revolution.”In 2001 Mattson was elected Vice President of ISNA; five years later she became President.
At an October 2001 open forum sponsored by CNN, Mattson was asked by a participant to comment on Wahhabism, an extreme and intolerant form of Islam with myriad ties to Saudi Arabia and Islamic terrorism. Mattson responded:“No, it's not true to characterize Wahhabism that way. This is not a sect. It is the name of a reform movement that began 200 years ago to rid Islamic societies of cultural practices and rigid interpretation that had acquired over the centuries. It really was analogous to the European Protestant Reformation…. [T]he Saudi scholars who are Wahhabi have denounced terrorism and denounced in particular the acts of September 11.”In 2002 Mattson authored a chapter, titled "Stopping Oppression: an Islamic Obligation," in the book September 11: Religious Perspectives on the Causes and Consequences. She wrote:“Muslims perceive that Israeli aggression against Palestinians continues without American sanction; indeed, enormous financial and military support for Israel has continued. It seems that any Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation is termed 'terrorism,' and is responded to with overwhelming force. The result is the Palestinians themselves are increasingly showing less restraint in the force they employ to defend their families and lands.”In a September 2002 interview with PBS, Mattson stated that she did not see "any difference" between Christian leaders criticizing Islam or al Qaeda on the one hand, and Osama bin Laden citing "Islamic theology to justify violence against Americans" on the other. That is, she believed that the Christians were inciting terrorism in a manner not unlike bin Laden.
At the opening of ISNA's 43rd annual convention in 2006, Mattson expressed her dismay that the phrase "Islamic terrorism" had gained such wide popular currency. "I'm convinced that it is not only inaccurate, but unhelpful," Mattson said, suggesting that U.S. officials should simply refer to "terrorism, crime, [or] violence," with no mention of any religious connection.
In a 2007 interview with the Baltimore Sun, Mattson complained that Americans were unduly judgmental of Muslims generally, and that their fear of Islamic terrorism had been blown out of all proportion: "There's a prejudgment, a collective judgment of Muslims, and a suspicion that, well, 'you may appear nice, but we know there are sleeper cells of Americans,' which of course is not true. There aren't any sleeper cells."
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CNN Suspends Roland Martin Over Super Bowl Ad Tweets
CNN's political commentator Roland Martin has been suspended, because of tweets sent out during the Super Bowl that organizations like GLAAD called homophobic.
NPR's David Folkenflik reports that the network was also reacting to online criticism of Martin. David filed this report for our Newscast unit:
"Roland S. Martin is a near-incessant tweeter and Sunday night during the Super Bowl proved no exception. British soccer star David beckham was shown during a television commercial hawking men's underwear — in nothing but that underwear. Martin caustically tweeted twice in response, writing to urge followers to 'smack the ish' out of any man who was 'hyped' about the ad.
"Gay rights groups said the tweets were homophobic. Martin said he was making an anti-soccer crack, but he later apologized more fully on his blog. On Wednesday, CNN released a statement calling his tweets offensive and inconsistent with the channel's values. He has been suspended from the air as a contributor indefinitely."
"Language that demeans is inconsistent with the values and culture of our organization, and is not tolerated," CNN said today in a statement according to The Washington Post. "We have been giving careful consideration to this matter, and Roland will not be appearing on our air for the time being."
On Monday, Martin issued an apology on his blog. He maintained that his tweets were made in jest and were made about soccer and not anyone's sexuality. He wrote:
"My joking about smacking someone, whether it was in response to a commercial or food they prepare for a Super Bowl party or wearing an opposing team's jersey, was stated in jest. It was not meant literally, and in no way would I ever condone someone doing such a thing.
"As I said repeatedly, I often make jokes about soccer in the U.S., and my crack about David Beckham's commercial was related to that and not to anyone's sexuality."
But as New York Magazine points out, that explanation would be "easier to believe if Martin hadn't earlier mocked a player for wearing pink and didn't have a history of defending questionable comments about homosexuality."
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation hailed CNN's move.
"CNN today took a strong stand against anti-LGBT violence and language that demeans any community," Rich Ferraro, a GLAAD spokesperson, said in a statement.
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Well that didn’t take long. In a suit filed yesterday in the US Disctrict Court in Arizona, a company named iCloud Communications, LLC has claimed trademark infringements against Apple over the use of the name iCloud.
While I’m no legal expert, it does appear that Apple has some explaining to do. Specifically, iCloud Communications is claiming that Apple’s heavy promotion of the iCloud product is damaging to its business and has all but removed the branding of the name from itself and placed it onto Apple.
To make matters somewhat worse, there’s some accusation that Apple’s services are nearly identical to the ones being offered by iCloud Communciations:
The goods and services with which Apple intends to use the “iCloud” mark are identical to or closely related to the goods and services that have been offered by iCloud Communications under the iCloud Marks since its formation in 2005. However, due to the worldwide media coverage given to and generated by Apple’s announcement of its “iCloud” services and the ensuing saturation advertising campaign pursued by Apple, the media and the general public have quickly come to associate the mark “iCloud” with Apple, rather than iCloud Communications.
The suit goes on to talk about different times in wich apple has been “willful” in trademark infringement in the past. It specifically mentions The Beatles, McIntosh Labs stereo equipment and the cartoon character Mighty Mouse.
There’s no specific amount of monetary relief set, but the suit does call for “all profits, gains and advantages” as well as “all monetary damages sustained”. Further, the suit asks for Apple to refrain from using the iCloud name and to “deliver for destruction all labels, signs, prints, insignia, letterhead, brochures, business cards, invoices and any other written or recorded material” with the iCloud name.
We’ve embedded the suit below, for your legal browsing pleasures. My huge thanks to TNW’s Matt Brian for grabbing it for us.
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Ideally, you should brush your teeth three times a day or at least twice at the minimum. You should also floss your teeth once a day as well, considering that your toothbrush can only clean part of your teeth and floss helps get those tough to reach places that your toothbrush can't reach.
Most people need to visit their dentist for a regular hygiene visit twice a year, or once every six months. There are exceptions to this rule, however. If you have gum disease, or a history of gum disease, your dentist may recommend more frequent visits. Another reason you may need to see the dentist more frequently is if you are undergoing orthodontic treatment. The bottom line is that you need to at least see the dentist twice a year and you need to comply if it is recommended that you make those visits more frequent.
Dental x-rays are very safe. The amount of radiation that a dental x-ray produces is about the same as you would receive from a cross country airplane ride.
Your child's first visit to the dentist should be made once they reach 6 months of life. Many offices will say once their first tooth comes our then you can make the appointment, but Dr. Correa knows that taking care of your child's oral health even before their teeth began to come is vitally important.
Treatment options for a fractured tooth will depend on the size and location of the fracture. First, the damaged part of the tooth is removed. A small crack? Usually a filling will fix it. A bigger crack? You may need a crown. A really bad crack that goes into the root or the center of the tooth? You may need that tooth to come out (extracted)
Changes in gum tissue, texture, tone, and inflammatory state (i.e., bleeding) are often signs of poor oral hygiene and the need for a professional cleaning. If you are experiening these symptoms, please make an appointment with our office as soon as possible before irreparable damage is done to your teeth and gums.
Teeth grinding or Bruxism as it's well known as is a condition in which your teeth grind against each other unconsciously, usually while you're asleep. It can be a sign of a larger problem such as immense stress, respiratory problems, or other issues. Symptoms may include: facial pain, headaches, earache, pain and stiffness in the jaw joint (temporomandibular joint) and surrounding muscles, which can lead to temporomandibular disorder (TMD), disrupted sleep (for you or your partner), and other issues.
A veneer is a thin piece of porcelain used to re-create the natural look of teeth, while also providing strength and resilience comparable to natural tooth enamel. They are custom made to the contour of your teeth and are bonded to the tooth's original enamel.
Laser dentistry is a fast and effective method that uses heat and light to perform a wide variety of dental procedures. Most importantly, laser dentistry is virtually pain-free! A laser dental treatment works by honing an intense beam of light energy to perform precise dental procedures. | <urn:uuid:a94702fe-7dcc-4c04-bbcd-099bf85254d1> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://www.prisma.dental/faq | 2021-01-18T00:47:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703514046.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20210117235743-20210118025743-00480.warc.gz | en | 0.965117 | 646 |
Very funny Canonical! :)
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Canonical is becoming more like Apple with the next release of Ubuntu.
Key parts of Ubuntu 13.04 will be developed in secret, to escape the critics' ire
In a twist that is sure to raise eyebrows and cause no end of neckbeard scratching, Canonical founder and Ubuntu’s de facto spiritual leader, Mark Shuttleworth, has announced that key parts of Ubuntu 13.04 will be developed in secret.
The reasoning is simple: Ubuntu 13.04 (dubbed Raring Ringtail, after the ring-tail cat/raccoon) will contain some features with “high ‘tada!’ value” (Shuttleworth’s words), and he would rather they stay secret until the big reveal. Judging by his words, Shuttleworth is sick of Ubuntu features being torn apart by critics before they're ready. “ We've … figured out that critics will be critics whether you discuss an idea with them in advance or not. Working on something in a way that lets you refine it till it feels ready to go has advantages: you can take time to craft something, you can be judged when you're ready, you get a lot more punch when you tell your story, and you get your name in lights.”
In short, Shuttleworth is upset at the panning that Canonical’s Unity interface received — and he also wants better, broader, more excitable news coverage when new versions of Ubuntu drop.
As for what these secret features actually are, Shuttleworth says that Canonical’s skunkworks project (so called after Lockheed’s secretive R&D Skunk Works department) has something for everyone, from “webby, to artistic, to scientific, to glitzy, to privacy-enhancing, to analytical". Unfortunately, that’s all we have to go on — and if you want to find out more, you'll need to be a contributing member of the Ubuntu community that has “established credibility". (Source)
Has anybody upgraded?
I think I'll hold off for a while as 12.04 is running splendidly on my home computers and the bug list for 12.10 looks a bit off-putting.
12.10 running lovely here so far. It's all that's installed at home, has been for years :)
Not a great fan of the new Amazon adware, though..
Ubuntu: Hey we've done $thing and we're releasing it tomorrow.
Ubuntu: Hey, we're working on thingy, ready in six months.
World: Erm.....how about changing $foo?
Ubuntu: You're all hamster-faced elephant poop cleaners and I hate you.
Ubuntu: *calms down*, oh, all right....we'll look into it.
....and since they're working on Open Source software, it's not like they're going to be able to hide the committs.
12/10 runs fine here, not run into any issues yet
Good news. I might take a chance over the weekend. I keep my /home on a separate partition so even a 12.04 re-install won't be a catastrophe. I use a lot of PPAs for my music and photo software, so I must wait for these to appear first.
Now the £620,643.29 question (at today's exchange rate) - did you upgrade or do a fresh install?
Was planning on building a low powered Server at home using 12.04 but may try this as well and see how I get on!
Well, I upgraded and it went well. I went for a normal upgrade and had no problems.
12.04 had an annoying pause re-connecting the wi-fi as my laptop came out of hibernation, but now this has been fixed in 12.10. All in all, well pleased.
I have to say, Kubuntu 12.10 has run very well for me. This has been the easiest Linux install yet, touch wood. All the hardware I have tested works, sound needed some tweaks but works and the only problem left is the /home partition failing to mount on startup causing my profile picture and wallpaper to reset. | <urn:uuid:eb07e017-8252-464b-a026-a1812ece2145> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.edugeek.net/forums/nix/print-103093-ubuntu-12-10-quantal-quetzal-now-available.html | 2014-10-22T07:00:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507446231.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005726-00203-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948703 | 900 |
A certain kind of girl wears a boho beach dress to the beach: a chic one! The bohemian style is all the rage at the moment, and has been, on and off, since the 1970s. The gypsy style has always been trendy, and a go-to for those in the know. With long skirts and lots of ruffles, the beach dress is a classic that deserves to live in each girl's closet. Think flowers in our hair, girly shapes and soft colors – true boho chic. Think nights under a full moon, listening to the distant rolling of waves as the stars begin to come out. | <urn:uuid:6c6545f5-f4eb-4fc4-946d-3140f412381f> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://wheretoget.it/explore/beach-dress | 2018-04-23T04:14:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945724.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20180423031429-20180423051429-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.956825 | 131 |
The Financial Stability Institute (FSI)
The Bank for International Settlements and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision jointly created the Financial Stability Institute (FSI) in 1999 to assist financial sector supervisors around the world in improving and strengthening their financial systems.
The FSI's objectives are to:
- promote sound supervisory standards and practices globally, and to support full implementation of these standards in all countries.
- provide supervisors with the latest information on market products, practices and techniques to help them adapt to rapid innovations in the financial sector.
- help supervisors develop solutions to their multiple challenges by sharing experiences in seminars, discussion forums and conferences.
- assist supervisors in employing the practices and tools that will allow them to meet everyday demands and tackle more ambitious goals.
The FSI achieves its objectives through the following main activities:
- Events for financial sector supervisors such as conferences, high level meetings, and seminars held in Switzerland and globally
- FSI Connect, an online learning tool and information resource for financial sector supervisors
- Publications such as FSI surveys, occasional papers and a quarterly newsletter | <urn:uuid:054eaf4b-0bd2-42af-ae00-81855e889252> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.bis.org/fsi/index.htm | 2014-10-23T21:15:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413558067648.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017150107-00241-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911847 | 223 |
If you've happened to catch the new Batman v. Superman flick, you might have noticed a futuristic looking power wheelchair featured in a few scenes. That chair just so happens to be Silicon Valley's own WHILL chair! While having your product featured alongside Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill is pretty cool, WHILL has some even more exciting news: Their new Model M has just received FDA clearance!
Head over to their website to read the press release on the FDA ruling and to see more about their exciting chairs!
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How to use lemon on the face safely.
When applying lemon directly to your face, you’ll want to treat the fruit like you would any new skin care product.
Gently apply to the desired area of skin using gentle pressure (don’t rub).
Once the lemon juice dries, you can continue with the rest of your skin care routine..
How can I permanently whiten my skin naturally?
How to lighten skin tone? 14 skin-whitening beauty tips to lighten your skin tone naturally!Get enough sleep. … Drink enough water. … Wear sunscreen even when indoors. … Moisturize your skin. … Massage your face with olive oil and honey. … Facial steam. … Use cold rose water. … Exfoliate your skin.More items…•
Can milk remove dark spots?
Milk, buttermilk, and even sour milk have all been shown to effectively lighten skin discoloration. Lactic acid is the ingredient responsible for this effect.
Does milk make skin glow?
Raw milk adds a never ending glow to the face when used with sugar particles. It improves the complexion and reverses the visible signs of dryness.
Which milk is best for skin?
It hydrates your skin even more, moisturizing it with the vitamins and proteins from the fat. For this reason, whole fat goat’s or cow’s milk is probably best (though others can work in a pinch). This goes for yogurt and other dairy products, too (buttermilk, sour cream, etc.).
What should I drink to become fair?
Drink Plenty Of Water Guzzle down at least 8 glasses of water daily to flush out toxins from the body, keep you hydrated and provide a natural glow to the skin. Also go for plenty of fresh apples, chikkus, banana and other seasonal fruit milkshakes to help you get a fairer skin tone.
How can I get fairer skin?
A great natural way to get fair skin is to mix a tiny amount of cinnamon with about half a teaspoon of honey and apply it on your face. Let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes and wash it off. If you have oily skin and want to lighten its tone, then applying a mixture of cucumber and lemon juice on it works wonders.
Can I apply milk on face everyday?
It will nourish skin cells from deep within and keep skin moisturized all day. If you’ve got acne-prone skin, it will gently exfoliate and gradually cure your acne….Nutrients in Raw Milk and Their Benefits for the Skin.Nutrient in MilkBenefit for SkinMagnesiumFor youthful, radiant skin. Slows down the aging process.10 more rows•Nov 21, 2019
Can milk whiten skin?
Milk contains lactic acid, which is really effective for lightening skin and removing dead skin cells that get accumulated on your face.
Is milk bad for skin?
Dairy and Acne Milk contains components related to the hormone testosterone that may stimulate oil glands in the skin, setting the stage for acne. Karcher has heard similar stories. “I’ve had patients who said they stopped dairy and their acne got better. You can have a totally healthy diet without dairy.
Is drinking milk good for skin?
Milk may help your skin, too. Milk also contains retinol, a known anti-aging and skin-restoring antioxidant. Plus, milk’s vitamin D is also an anti-aging vitamin thanks to its anti-inflammatory effects and protection from UV rays. Dairy has also long been associated with causing acne. | <urn:uuid:7384e643-88c7-493c-a7af-7f9fd6b1af2e> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://take5japan.com/qa/quick-answer-is-milk-good-for-skin.html | 2021-03-05T23:12:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178373761.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20210305214044-20210306004044-00315.warc.gz | en | 0.910018 | 870 |
I got my first telescope in 2017, in time for the Great American Eclipse. I started paying attention to the concept of light pollution, including finding detailed maps of what places had high or low amounts of light pollution. After looking up nearby areas that were potentially good for stargazing, I got curious, and started just looking around at what all the light pollution was from. Of course, the vast majority of light pollution is from cities: street lights, industrial zones, parking lots. But sometimes, it’s from something else.
My first find was when looking over my home state of Maine. At first glance, everything looks normal. Bright spots for the two biggest cities, Portland and Bangor. Scattered lights over the whole coast. Pitch black over Baxter State Park.
But wait, what’s that other bright spot? It looks almost as bright as Portland. I’m not familiar with a city there.
Zooming in, we can see that it is… nothing. Just a bend in a river.
Switching to google maps satellite mode, we can see that there definitely isn’t a city there. But there is this large, flat building.
What kind of building produces a city’s worth of light pollution? At the time it wasn’t labeled on google maps, so I switched to street view and tried to find signs. I googled random guesses. Somehow, I found it. It’s a tomato farm called Backyard Farms. The tomatoes are in a massive green house. And while most of the time the tomatoes grow by sunlight, the winter hours in Maine are very short, and so this greenhouse augments its growing season with an enormous array of yellow lamps. And this makes it the single greatest source of light pollution in the entire state.
If you looked at this light pollution map of the United States, you might start to wonder after a minute; what is this sprawling metropolis in North Dakota?
Zooming in, we can see that its location is not the only odd feature. While the light pollution of most urban areas is relatively smooth and peaks in a small number of central places, this phenomenon seems to be quite blotchy.
Again, switching to google maps, we see an intense lack of urbanization. Zooming in all the way reveals the truth.
If you don’t recognize the shadow, this is an oil field. The light pollution comes from the associated gas flares. These flares are deliberate, continuously burning fires, and they convert methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into CO2, a much less potent greenhouse gas.
While the entire subject is rife with controversy, oil fields continue to shape our landscapes. Here’s a strange looking nebula in Texas.
And here is a constellation of offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
Lastly, I was wondering to myself what the light pollution around Mauna Kea looked like. Mauna Kea is a mountain in Hawaii that hosts a dozen of the world’s finest astronomical observatories. It has near-perfect viewing conditions, including being above most of the water vapor in the atmosphere. But it still shares an island with two hundred thousand people, who are producing a noticeable amount of light. So what does the map say?
Panning over to Hawaii, we see that Honolulu is by far the biggest source of light pollution. Fortunately, it’s over 200km away from Mauna Kea, and doesn’t contribute to light pollution there. But the big island does seem to have its own major source. What could it be?
Zooming in, we see that it’s pretty point-like, symmetric and centralized. But there’s no city there.
Instead, there’s a volcano. Kīlauea, as an active volcano, regularly has literal glowing lava occupying the caldera. The amount of light changes with the level of eruption activity. Fortunately, at least according to the map, the light pollution doesn’t quite reach the summit of Mauna Kea.
Last year I had my 30th birthday party. I wanted to make it a little more of a shindig, so I decided to plan a puzzle hunt. And what was the theme? You guessed it, it was the International Space Station. I had never run a puzzle hunt before, so I decided to get some help from my friend Catherio. She was on the team that created the 2015 MIT puzzle hunt, and I knew she’d help me avoid a lot of puzzling pitfalls.
I’ve written out the full instructions of the puzzle hunt here so that anyone who wants to reproduce the experience can do so. But I also want to give the reader something of a chance at participating in the puzzle themselves, so I’m going to write this post from the perspective of a puzzle-solver, and split it across a few pages to hide the answers. You can pause reading at any time to try to figure out the next step. If you just want to read the instructions to reproduce the puzzle, skip to the last page.
You and your 20 closest friends show up on site, at the entrance to the Doe library on UC Berkeley campus. It’s raining a little bit. You are split into four groups, representing the four space agencies of the ISS: NASA, Roscosmos, ESA, and JAXA. You end up in the ESA group, representing the European Space Agency. The mission director gets everyone’s attention and begins to speak.
“Welcome everyone! We’ve got an important mission to complete today. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been going so well. A routine resupply capsule has been sent up to the ISS. Just as it was docking, a collision occurred that broke up the capsule, sending the payload spinning away. You job now is to survey the area to collect pieces of the capsule, with which you will attempt to recover telemetry data to locate the payload.”
They hand out four binders, one to each group. The binders contain the following:
“This is your mission briefing booklet. The ISS overlay shows the relevant search areas; capsule debris will not be far outside the colored areas. There will be no debris inside campus buildings. You’ve been assigned to different regions of the ISS depending on which space agency sent you up. The map in your mission guide shows you the bounds of your region. This division helps you efficiently parallelize your search; the overall mission is best completed as a team.
“Your mission packets contains other useful information. You have internet access on the ISS. Catherio and I are mission control; if you have any questions, message us on Messenger or some other platform. You’re encouraged to send me messages about your progress or struggles, so I can help get you more resources.”
With this, you are released.
If you’d like to inspect the mission booklet, take a closer look at the documents linked above. To go outside, go to the next section.
Recently one of my friends excitedly told me, Alex, my cousin makes elaborate gingerbread houses every year, and guess what he’s making this year? The International Space Station! That idea instantly struck me as a tempting project. Over the last week, I finally got around to it.
First, like any normal human, I googled it to see what had been done before. I found twoexamples on google images.
Now, both of these are wonderful, but if you know me, then you’ll know that one thing I really appreciate is accuracy. So I decided that I’d do my best to make my model to scale.
The next step was to ask myself, what are the main, essential components of the station? I’d say there are three; the pressurized modules, the solar arrays, and the truss that connects them all. The solar arrays are easy, just flat rectangle. The truss is a long beam with a trapezoidal cross section. Challenging, but could be done with four long thin slices of gingerbread. Lastly, there’re the pressurized modules.
This part of the station gets the most attention by far, since it’s where the people are. It is the core of the station, both structurally and in terms of purpose. The rest of it feels like infrastructure, like all the pipes in your basement (although there are a number of scientific experiments attached to the truss). It was also least obvious how to model this part. It’s mostly a bunch of cylinders. I can imagine making a cylinder of gingerbread, but the radius would have to be awfully big. I realized that this feature would probably dictate the scale of the rest of the model, so I decided to do a circuit through the local grocery store to take an inventory of what cylindrical desserts would be appropriate. There were lots of possibilities, but nothing was particularly satisfying. I was originally hoping to use Little Debbie’s swiss rolls, but those proved both hard to find, and a little too big.
I took some time to figure out what a given module radius would imply about the physical sizes about the rest of the model. It was tempting to make a meter-long station, but I didn’t think I had the gingerbread or table space for it. I eventually decided that a 0.75 inch diameter for the modules would just about max out the pre-made dough I had bought, while making everything else workable. After one more store visit, I found these Waffeletten desserts.
This gave me a scaling factor of 0.18 inches per meter, or 1:219. (For comparison, this popular LEGO Saturn V kit is 1:110.)
I decided then that it was worth running a quick series of experiments in baking the dough. Did I mention I’ve never made a gingerbread house before? I later realized that I’d also never made a model of the ISS before. So this was a nice first.
Anyway, I took a scoop of the dough, put it on some parchment paper, and drew a circle around it with a pencil to see how much it would expand. I also wrapped some dough around a metal chopstick, just to see if that would make a nice crisp cylinder of dough. It did not.
I also used this opportunity to try cutting the dough, before baking, after baking, and after it had time to cool down. It was feasible to cut in all cases, as long as I was a bit careful with the edges. I also found that the dough expanded by 25%. Later I would learn that this did not replicate with larger amounts. Science is hard.
After baking and cutting all sixteen solar panels, I began to seriously question whether I could practically make the truss out of gingerbread. Some parts of it would be thinner, it would need to be glued together with icing, and I was concerned about running out of dough. Another friend mentioned that I could use Toblerone chocolate bars for it. They turned out to be the perfect size for my chosen scale. I decided to trim the pointy top off all the segments, to bring it closer to the trapezoidal shape.
I was pleased to find that there is edible, metallic paint, readily available off amazon. This gave the station a little pizzazz, making it look more suggestive of the real thing. I opted not to paint all surfaces though, partly because I didn’t know how far the paint would go (it turned out to need two coats) and partly because I still wanted my model to be obviously food.
While making decisions I tried to choose a compromise between three features: an accurate model, something that was in the gingerbread house spirit, and something that cohered as a food pallet. There were candies that would have made some of the detailing easier, but didn’t seem like they would taste good next to gingerbread. The only parts I ended up with that were not edible were the toothpicks, paperclips and paper.
While waiting for things to dry, bake, or cool, I decided to create the mat to display it on. I got a surprising amount of pleasure out of making this part. Originally I just thought I’d use a plain piece of cardboard, and then I realized that it would be easy to make it look like the earth was below the station. I looked around for easy ways to get satellite images of the earth, and screen-shotting google maps turned out to be the easiest way. So I zoomed into the Bay area (where I live), turned on satellite mode, turned of labels, put it in full screen, and took a screen shot. The I panned as far away as I though my margins would handle, and took another screenshot, and so on. Then I cropped the menu stuff from these photos, printed them out, cut the white paper margins off, and aligned them, taped them together, taped the whole thing to the cardboard, and then covered it in plastic wrap.
Here’s the section where I want to brag about the accuracies, because if I was reading this post I would want to know all about it. (After that I’ll talk about the inaccuracies.) First, all the basic sizes are proportional: the length of the truss, the height and shape of the truss, the length and width of the solar panels, the fact that they’re paired up, the spacing between them, the spacing between the pairs, their distance from and along the truss, the diameter and length of the pressurized modules, their relative locations, the fact that Zarya has its solar panels folded up to make way for the thermal radiators, the width, length and number of panels of the thermal radiators. I’m also pleased to have included the existence of the Poisk docking module, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, the Canadarm, the Kibo Exposed Facility, and the Kibo Remote Manipulator System. I set some of the solar arrays at an angle, because in pictures of the station they never seem to all be at the same angle, and I angled the thermal radiators perpendicularly. Finally, the mat depicts the SF Bay area and a hundred miles east of it; relative to this, the ISS is positioned going in the right cardinal direction (but at not quite the right angle).
Okay, now for the inaccuracies. The Quest Airlock is completely missing, because honestly it’s just such a weird shape that I didn’t know what to do. The most egregious depiction is the truss. I treated it like a homogeneous linear shape, whereas in reality its made of as many distinct segments as the pressurized section. The parts that hold the solar arrays aren’t even trapezoidal. None of the intricate machinery is represented (except the Canadarm). Next are the Russian components Zarya and Zvezda. I gave these a try, but they’re also a really irregular shape, so I only got a bit of it. They should also be painted white, but I didn’t want to buy two bottles of edible paint.
There are a number of components that aren’t present simply because they would be located below the plane that I rested the model on. These are the Pirs and Rassvet Russian modules (which are smaller than most of the others, but still notable), the cupola, and the other four panels of each of the smaller thermal radiator arrays that point downward. There are some missing external platforms and experiments like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. There are no docked spacecraft, resupply capsules, or adapters.
Overall this project was really fun! I was surprised by how much I enjoyed trying to replicate features of the station. I was also surprised at how much time things took, and how many decision points there were that mattered. For example, I painted the toothpicks black as an afterthought, but now I realize that that made a big difference in how it looks. I’m very happy with the result, and I’m now more motivated to make more ISS models!
On May 23rd, 2018, I had an idea. I was having dinner with a friend. That night, the International Space Station (ISS) was going to pass almost directly overhead just after sunset; the perfect conditions under which to view it. What’s more, a Cygnus resupply spacecraft had recently launched, and had approached the station close enough to be seen next to it as a separate, dimmer point of light. For whatever reason, over dinner the thought occurred to me; what if we built a replica of the ISS, so that we could explore it? We could wander around inside, taking all the twists and turns, looking inside all the different cabinets and storage areas. We could poke around at the scientific apparatuses, see how the hatches worked, crawl inside the attached capsules, look down into the cupola. Then we could go outside and see the massive solar panels, the robotic Canadarm, and explore the equipment on the huge truss that holds it all together. It would be amazing! Who wouldn’t love that?
My friend was immediately skeptical. Isn’t the ISS huge? Wasn’t it insanely expensive to build?
To these challenges, my mind automatically generated solutions using the strategies I had absorbed from being a software developer; so-called “agile” or “lean” methodologies. (I’ll use lowercase here, since I’m not referring to their official definitions, but instead to the general principles that have spread throughout the profession via habit and hearsay.) In agile development there’s a term called MVP, which stands for Minimum Viable Product. If your future is highly uncertain, with limited funding and a small team, then instead of starting to build the best product you can think of in its mature form, consider the minimum-effort version of the product that still provides the fundamental functionality. If you get that far, start showing it to people right away, so that you can incorporate their feedback as soon as possible. Sometimes the feedback will be things you expected because you know it’s the minimal version: maybe people will complain that it doesn’t have many features, or that it looks ugly. But sometimes reality will surprise you, and people won’t care about how it looks, and instead they’ll all want a slightly different version of the product than what you were thinking of. Since you haven’t invested a lot of resources into a specific design, it’s easier to make iterative improvements.
So I asked myself, what is the minimum viable version of this ISS replica? We could get a bunch of plywood, nail it together in the shape of the internal corridors of the ISS, get images of all of the panels, print them on life-sized posters, and hang up the posters on the plywood. This would get you a sense of the size and structure of the whole station for, what, a few hundred bucks?
My friend was not impressed.
Okay, okay, I said, that’s not thrilling, but hear me out. That was literally my first thought. We could trivially improve this. We could go to a junkyard and get a lot of the stuff that’s inside the station — ethernet cables, cameras, Thinkpads — and velcro it all over the walls and ceiling. We could go to the Container Store and buy lots of those fabric bags that astronauts use to store things, remove one of the plywood panels, and fill the gap with a bunch of the “zero-g stowage”. We could replace some of the panels with tablets, and write interactive apps about the station. I proposed that through a series of similar modifications, we could create a pretty cool playground environment, and still not spend more than a couple thousand.
Later that night, we got up on the roof, ready with binoculars. The ISS appeared on the horizon, and we tracked it as it approached the zenith. Eventually it shot overhead, bright as I’ve ever seen it. We did our best at hand tracking it with the binoculars, but for whatever reason, we weren’t able to find the trailing Cygnus capsule.
The Real MVP
Since then, I’ve done a lot more thinking and research, and I’ve entirely changed my idea of what the MVP should be. Though the plywood & posters version would be fun to walk through, it would be better to have something that could more plausibly generate self-sustaining revenue. And while you can go fairly far with upgrading the plywood & posters, it’s hard to see a smooth transition between that and a realistic replica of the entire station, inside and out; at some point you just have to scrap the whole thing and start over.
I also clarified my goals, by introspecting on what got me so excited about the idea;
1. provide a realistic, immersive experience of the station
2. use it as a platform for STEM education via physically interactive exhibits.
My eventual vision was the station as a science museum. Instead of just being a playground, the internals would all be designed as exhibits that taught you things about how the ISS worked, the environment of space, and the science experiments that are continuously performed inside the station. From my cursory research, it seems like museums typically get built all at once; some rich person or organization decides they want a museum, and that’s that. I could attempt to petition rich people, but this is not a particularly hopeful strategy. Instead, I decided to start with an MVP, something I knew I could build on my own, and something which, if my idea is good and I adapt to the lessons I learn, will naturally lead me to the next stage. My eventual MVP plan arose from discovering the station’s greatest engineering strength; a double-layer of modularity.
Modularity from the outside
The ISS is about the size of a football field. But all this really means is that it’s about as long and as wide. It is dramatically smaller in volume than, for example, a warehouse the size of a football field. If you fold up all those solar panels, detach the truss, and lay all the pieces next to each other, I reckon they could all fit inside the 15 yard line.How did this gangly structure get into space in the first place? The ISS was taken into orbit almost entirely by NASA’s fleet of space shuttles. Because the space shuttle payload bay is only so big, the ISS had to be designed as many separately functional modules, and then built, launched and assembled together one at a time.
Given this, instead of making a replica of the “whole” station out of shoddy materials, the new idea for an MVP is to build only one module, and make it look fairly realistic from the inside and outside. It still has the property of being an immersive, interactive science exhibit. People will be able to approach a big cool space-looking thing, walk inside of it, and play with dozens of science exhibits. It’s the kind of thing that could travel around to museums, schools or conventions. It’s a relatively practical goal to aim for, and if I get to this checkpoint then I’ll have a better shot at getting more resources to continue, and I’ll have more experience to know how to best move forward. The amount of revenue it can generate roughly scales with its size, providing a sustainable path forward.
Modularity from the inside
Great, so now I have a much more attainable goal, and I didn’t have to give up any of the vision. Now the big question is, which module do I build first? After a long series of reasoning that I’ll detail in a later post, I decided on the module that is officially known as Destiny, but which the astronauts called the US Laboratory, or just “the lab”.
Destiny, along with most of the other pressurized modules, has a very simple architecture. It is a tube whose cross-section is a circle on the outside and a square on the inside. The square provides the equivalent of a floor, ceiling, and two walls. This gives four separate volumes of equal size and shape, one for each side of the square. Finally, the tube is sliced up lengthwise in slices of equal width. These volumes end up being the size of a large wardrobe, and are filled by what is called an International Standard Payload Rack (ISPR). They hold science equipment, electronics, life support, and even the astronaut bunks.
Thus, all of the internals of these pressurized modules can be regarded in terms of the modular ISPRs. They are the same across all the relevant modules, no matter the orientation or country of origin, and can be physically removed and swapped around by the astronauts on board. This is fantastically useful for the real ISS, and is fortunately very useful for my project as well.
I wouldn’t really want to build a big cylindrical shell of a space module and then have nothing in it; that is not an MVP. On the other hand, if I have a bunch of ISPRs full of awesome science exhibits, those might be marketable even without a space module for them to go in. This also scales down nicely, all the way down to one rack.
Now we have arrived at the third and most practical level of the plan. We design and build a single rack, housing self-contained interactive science exhibits about the ISS. This has relatively little upfront investment, both in terms of money and time. In the process I’ll learn a lot about my ability to build things and design exhibits. One rack is a sensible object to offer museums as a rentable exhibit, or to schools as part of a science curriculum. Along the way I’ll gain information about what resources I have in my social network. I’ll have a physical artifact that can give people an experiential sense of what the museum will eventually look like. Best of all, it works directly toward the final vision; the ISPR that I build might be able to slot right into the full ISS replica, which is more than we could say about plywood & posters.
I kept this idea in the back of my mind for several months, doing incremental research here and there. Then I spent a couple weekends building an ISPR frame. Eventually, I left my job, and a few months later, I decided to go full time on this idea. If you’d like to follow along, subscribe to this blog. And if you have any questions or advice, go ahead and contact me, either here or on twitter.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. You have probably heard this, because the first moon landing often tops lists of the most significant historical events. It is a cause for celebration of humanity and what we are capable of in the best of times.
Yet many of us ardent space fans have quite mixed feelings about the anniversary, because we have not “been back”. Humanity has not sent a person past low-earth orbit since the end of the Apollo program when Eugene Cernan climbed back into the lunar lander on December 14, 1972.
This is a good time to reflect on our values. It’s not obvious to me that we should have gone to the moon back in 1969. It was ultimately politically motivated, and paid for by taxpayer money. Maybe we should have done something else with that money, like ending the Vietnam war faster. I don’t know. I wasn’t there.
But that was then. What should we do now? We get to decide. NASA is currently pursuing a directive to go back to the moon, as they have been many times since 1972. Their failure to get back has a lot of causes, but a major one is that the populace isn’t rallying for it. Constituents rallied for Apollo for as long as it was a competition with the USSR. After a few half-billion dollar Apollo missions, they started getting tired. They started noticing other problems.
How do you want us to be spending our collective economic fruits? If everyone was a clone of me, then the NFL’s $15 billion revenue would instead be used to double NASA’s budget. But I wouldn’t put everything we have into space exploration; there are too many things that matter. How would you allocate it? And how do you want to be spending your own resources? How much do you want to be exploring the world, going on road trips, discovering new and fascinating people and phenomena, and how much do you just want to make sure that your sister feels better when she gets sick?
As mammals we all have deep drives to conserve and ensure our comfort and survival. As humans, we also have something else; something that helps give meaning to survival. Sometimes, it’s just looking at an object on a shelf and thinking, what is this? You pick it up to inspect it with a look in your eyes. You are not and never were going to buy it. You don’t need to use it for a task. There are another hundred thousand objects in this store. You were just curious.
A bird off in the distance is doing something that catches your eye. It’s circling and dancing around a tree top in a strange way. It periodically lands and takes off again. You watch it for a while, thinking about life as a bird. Is it doing a mating dance? Is it looking for its nest? Is it trying to intimidate some other creature? You’re not going to look it up. You’re not going to film it and ask an ornithologist. You’re just curious. You ask your friends who live nearby. They say they think they’ve seen birds doing that when it gets especially hot and dry. Interesting, you say. The conversation moves on. You’re just curious.
You walk down the street and see someone crouched down, painting a tiny flower on a fire hydrant. They look so happy. Two blocks later, you see someone performing gestures of prayer. They look at peace. When you get back to your apartment, you look at your small garden and smile. You decide to tend to it, and while you do, you think about people. What makes them happy? Why do they do what they do? Why do they find things beautiful? As you garden, you decide that you will start asking people. You gaze down onto the street with a look in your eyes.
Sometimes the curiosity is fleeting, and sometimes it lingers. Sometimes it alerts you to a concern. Sometimes it leads you on a half-day quest to understand, and sometimes it lights a fire inside you, and you acquire an almost paralyzing fixation on the question. You drive your car past your house because you are thinking about the question. You change your careers to better investigate the question. You leave your social support network to move across the country to work with others on the question. You establish an institute and you petition policy makers and you become chief administrator of an entire governmental department to answer the damn question.
I don’t know why we look over horizons and wonder what’s beyond, and I don’t know whether it’s ultimately calibrated toward helping the species survive. I don’t know whether we should have gone to the moon in 1969. But when I think of what we’ve done, I feel a joy that can be fueled no other way, and I would be happy for you to join me on our quest to answer these questions. Let us always take care of ourselves and our loved ones along the way, let us always consider the allocation of resources with utmost somberness, and let us never lose that look in our eyes.
The list of bodies in the solar system unvisited by human devices is tantalizingly short. But there’s one object that many people might be surprised to find out we haven’t sent probes to; the sun.
On 12 August 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe began to make its way closer to the sun than any man-made object before it, and there are a couple reasons why its journey was challenging to design. The obvious one is that the sun is hot; it took decades to invent and perfect insulators, sensors and solar panels that could handle the heat. But the other reason has to do with orbital mechanics; it is significantly harder to go straight to the sun than it is to leave the solar system.
How could this be? Right away we can tell that it’s not about distance. Jupiter is five times further than the sun, yet we’ve gone there nine times. The key is that “going places” in space is effortful in a totally different way than going places on the surface of the earth. Rocket scientists don’t think in terms of distance.
On earth, getting some place is hard because there’s friction everywhere, and stuff in the way. When you walk or run, every time you put your foot down, the ground reabsorbs much of the energy from the last step. Cars in neutral roll to a stop after a few hundred feet. Even jet engines have to burn huge amounts of fuel just to push through the drag of the air. Since there is resistance along every meter or mile, travel is effortful per unit distance; per unit of stuff you have to push past.
In space there is nothing resisting motion, so distance is in some sense free. Once you get up to speed, you just stay that speed. Of course it does still take time to go that distance, but it doesn’t cost any more “effort” (which is usually fuel, for a spacecraft).
I just said “you stay that speed”, but more accurately, you stay at that “energy level”. Travelling through a gravitational field changes your trajectory. Things also get more complicated because those sources of gravity are points in space, which means that travellers will end up rotating around them. Rotation always makes things less intuitive.
I find it very useful to imagine the physical analogy of the sun “sinking” down into space, causing a big gravity well. When other bodies are near the sun, they feel the sloped edges of the gravity well, and want to move toward it. But if those bodies are also moving sideways, then they can just roll around the sides of the well like marbles without ever falling in. This video gives a real-world demonstration.
The Earth orbits the sun in a circular path, and therefore stays the same speed all the way around. But comets, for example, orbit the sun in a path called an ellipse. For part of their path they are a small distance from the sun and moving quickly, and for another part of their path, they are a large distance from the sun and moving slowly. They whip around the gravity well in bursts. But at any given time, the “kinetic” energy from its speed and the “potential” energy (the energy an apple has before falling from a tree) adds up to the same energy level. Travelling the path of the orbit will shift the balance of the two kinds, but the total remains the same.
So if your current path takes you to where you want to go, you can just wait; but if your destination is at a different “energy level”, you have to change your energy to match it. (And then wait.) There’s also the question of what we measure our energy level with respect to; for our purposes, we’ll use the most dominant body in the system, namely the sun.
If you want to orbit the sun close to its surface, you need a small energy level with respect to the sun. The earth, since it is relatively far from the sun, has a large energy level with respect to the sun. If you are on the earth, you share the same energy level.
Consider the gravity well analogy above. If the earth is a marble rolling around the well endlessly, and the space probe is a tiny micro-marble, and the probe separates from earth, it will also just roll around the gravity well at the same distance. The sun’s pull doesn’t imply that the probe can just “give up” and drop into the well; it has to lose the kinetic energy it has, and then the sun’s pull will drop its orbit closer.
Therefore, if you are coming from earth like a newly built space probe and you want to get to the sun, you have to get rid of a lot of the energy of your current level. In space, getting rid of energy is as hard as gaining it. There’s no friction to drain it from you. So to change your energy level, you have to push or pull on other stuff. To change your energy level a lot, you can either push or pull really hard, push or pull on a lot of stuff, or just not weigh very much to start with. The Parker Solar Probe will use all three strategies.
To push really hard, you want a big, big rocket. Parker launched on the Delta IV Heavy, which was the most capable rocket in operation from 2011 (when the Space Shuttle retired) until this year (with the launch of the Falcon Heavy). The Delta IV is a hefty machine; it could haul a few cars into orbit in one go. Parker, weighing less than a smart car, is going a lot farther away (or “faster away”) than earth orbit, so it requires the Heavy variant. This rocket is three Delta IV boosters bolted together, with the second stage on top of the middle booster. It could take up a school bus and the Hubble at the same time. But Parker still isn’t satisfied. It has a need; a need for speed. So it uses that unallocated payload capacity to bring up its own personal third-stage rocket. The Parker Solar Probe is the only mission that has needed a third stage on top of the Delta IV Heavy.
But in truth, this isn’t nearly enough. So after all the rockets burn, the Probe is headed toward Venus to pull on a lot of stuff. Parker will be performing seven gravity assists from Venus during its mission. When any two bodies move past each other in space, they pull on each other through gravity. Depending on your reference frame, this causes one of them to speed up, and the other to slow down. In our case, Parker will be using Venus to lose energy with respect to the sun, therefore falling deeper into the sun’s gravity well. Since planets have an enormous amount of mass, Venus will only speed up an infinitesimal amount, but Parker will feel a huge change.
Ultimately, the Probe will manage to lose enough energy to get within 4.5 solar diameters from the sun. This course takes it directly through the corona, a thin layer of physical sun stuff. This stuff doesn’t act like we expect it to; it’s hundreds of times hotter than the sun’s surface below. Heliophysicists have been unable to account for this fact using remote observations. So to solve this mystery, we will have to go to the heart of it.
You can follow the Parker Solar Probe’s progress toward the sun by following NASA Sun & Space on twitter.
In recent months, two of my hobbies have been amateur telescopy and spectating at orbital rocket launches. Conceptually, these are kin; one brings the universe closer to us, and the other brings us closer to the universe. But experientially, they don’t share much. One is silent, rigid, and tests your patience, the other is an explosion of matter and emotions, gone before you can grasp it.
If there’s anything I’m optimizing for at a launch, it is to “be there”. Everyone knows that rockets go up, just as everyone knows that babies are born. But it is something different to be there. You can watch a live stream of a launch, just as you can watch the superbowl on TV. But even though you see what happens at the same time as everyone else, it is something different to be there.
I don’t know how or why, but some part of the mind knows, and cares deeply, about the distinction between knowing and experiencing. So after I saw my first launch I thought, how can I get closer? How can I increase the intensity of my experience? During that first launch I had used binoculars, and they helped me resolve significantly more detail. So… why not watch a launch through a telescope?
Now, let’s just be clear that this is a ridiculous idea. Finding a still object in the night sky is a tricky endeavor. If it’s really bright like the Mars or Vega you can point and shoot, but for most cases you want a “finder” scope, a smaller, low magnification scope that’s aligned with the big one. It’s far easier to find an object at lower magnification where you can see lots of surrounding context, and then switch to a higher magnification for detail, than to start at higher magnification and only be able to see a few nearby stars for orientation. Furthermore, if the object is moving, it’s tricky to keep up. Most things in the night sky don’t seem to move, but everything has an apparent motion of at least at the rate that the earth rotates. The highest magnification my equipment gets is ~500x, and at that rate the earth takes it out of the viewing field in maybe 15 seconds. I’ve caught planes in the scope before, and it was pretty cool, but you definitely had to be on your toes to keep up with it. Obviously a rocket goes faster than a plane.
Nevertheless, I’m at a place in my life where it’s good for me to practice the virtue of empiricism. So I dragged the gear all the way to Vandenberg and set it up in broad daylight. I was with three other friends and we’re watching a Falcon 9 take up a batch of Iridium satellites. (You can see the original webcast for this launch here). From the closest public viewing spot on Ocean Ave, you can’t actually see the launch facility. Though it’s only 3.5 miles away, the Air Force had an understandable desire that their base not be easily visible, so there’s a hill in the way, just high enough to cover it all. So I couldn’t just point the scope at the rocket on the pad, wait for liftoff, and track it from there. I’d have to catch it in the air.
While we wait, I put in the eyepiece. Normally during an astronomy session, I start looking at something with the lower-magnification eyepieces and work my way up. In this case, my moving target gives me no time to switch them out. I want to see the rocket at the highest magnification I can, but that will also make it harder to find and track in the scope. So I pick an eyepiece in the middle, with a 10mm focal length, giving me 65x magnification. I make sure it’s focused, using the one distant building we can see.
As an aside, I was also curious as to whether the exhaust flames could be seen through the solar viewing glasses we all bought for the eclipse of August 2017. The exhaust has the extraordinary brightness quality of the sun, while being obviously not as bright (otherwise viewing launches would be a discouraged act).
At the exact prescribed time, we see the column of flames rise over the hill, and I grab the eclipse glasses. It takes a second for my eyes to adjust to the darkness (because the launch is during the day) but indeed I can see the flames through the glasses. This puts a very high lower bound on their brightness; much brighter than a lightbulb.
As soon as that’s established, I run over to the scope. With the rocket rising fast, I crouch behind it and slew it to where I think the rocket will be by the time I stand up and get my eye in the eyepiece. Bingo. It’s early enough in the burn that the vehicle still subtends a very large angle in the sky, and its brightness also leaves a halo to follow. But it’s still moving, so I immediately have to get my bearings and start to guide the scope upwards.
The detail is beautiful. I can see the bulb of the payload fairings, I can see the landing legs, I can see the grid fins. If it were rotated correctly, I’m sure I could read the SpaceX logo. I follow its steady rise, up and up and up. I wish I had a camera where my eye is. I lose it for a second, but I follow its orange halo back. Since rockets always end up going away from you, the fuselage tips over and becomes increasingly foreshortened. And since the atmospheric pressure around the rocket is decreasing as it gains altitude, the flames start to fan out. The Falcon 9 has eight engines in a circle and one in the center, making a pattern of flames that ends up looking something like a flower. This pattern is very clear through the scope. The flames spread wider, and consequently get dimmer. After a couple minutes, the flames cut out. There’s no announcer at this viewing spot, so I yell out “main engine cut off!” in case anyone is interested. I see the long white blur split in two, and the pieces drift apart. “Stage separation!” At 50 miles up, the pieces are really tiny, but still discernible. I see flames again. “Second stage ignition!”
Now there are two objects in my view. One of them, carrying the payload, is accelerating toward space under 210,000 pounds of thrust. The other, a charred and spent 16-story machine, is in freefall. I have about four seconds before one of them goes out of view. The booster is landing in the ocean; there’ll be no boost-back burn, but there will be an entry burn to slow it down. The second stage is small and only getting smaller. I decide to let it go.
To my surprise, I see some angular puffs of white come from the top of the first stage. They’re so rapid and dim that they seem more like a light blinking than a rocket engine. I later learn that these are cold nitrogen thrusters, pressurized cans of gas used to make very slow but precise changes to the rocket’s orientation. (You can see these in the webcast starting here.) They appear sporadically, clearly the result of real-time calculations of the rocket’s current position.
Though the booster is now falling to the ground, it’s still travelling away from me and toward the deep pacific ocean. The sheer distance between us gives the sky the chance to obscure it with the blueness of Rayleigh scattering. I lose sight of the now infinitesimal machine.
After almost three minutes of continuous viewing, I step away from the scope and look up for the first time. There’s a fantastic contrail extending to the southeast, and it casts its own shadow in the mist of the upper atmosphere. Besides that, it’s over. There is nothing more to see. Even the crackle has faded. I look around at my friends, realizing that they had a completely different experience than me. That… was awesome. But also… it felt pretty similar to just watching a webcast. It actually felt less like “being there”. After some reflection, I concluded that the fact that I couldn’t easily switch between looking through the scope and looking at the sky, like one can with binoculars, was a critical factor. I could only use one eye. I couldn’t place what I was seeing in my surrounding context; I couldn’t connect it with the sounds I was hearing; I couldn’t see all the people around me reacting. It was worth doing, but I’m very glad I tried it during my second launch viewing. I’ll have to find some other way to get closer.
The second reason to see a live rocket launch is the crowd. Their energy is irreproducible. Humanity cares about this. Ten minutes before launch, the cheering at Kennedy Space Center starts in ripples.
We all shuffle around anxiously, fussing over the perfect spot. I pull up google maps and try to triangulate the exact direction it will come from. I get pretty confident. But I know it won’t matter after the first five seconds. From seven miles away, we’re all getting pretty much the same view. I put my phone away.
It’s five minutes away, and John Insprucker comes onto the webcast. I’ve never heard him so happy. He gives a review of the mission, but we know what’s going to happen. We know what we came here to see. Despite the giant screen and the big speakers, he’s just another one of the crowd, here to celebrate with us.
There’s nothing to think about now. I watch the clock and wait. T -1:00. I remember to start the decibel meter on my phone. I put my phone away for the last time. We stare and watch. The crowd can’t handle it anymore; we start to count down.
It gets to zero, and I see nothing. I hear nothing. The trees take the sight of ignition from me, and the distance its rumble. From webcast we can tell that things are fine. We wait long seconds until finally people start to cheer.
“I see it, it see it!”
“There it is!”
“Go baby, go!”
The rumble begins to sweep over the field and the crowd bursts into cheering and applause. I catch my first glimpse of it through a sparse tree. The rocket is a spot of brilliance, climbing slowly through the sky. If it lasts long enough, it will come out the other side.
Videos of the launch will show the flames as a splotch of white pixels, capped out at the brightness of the screen. Here at the Cape I get to learn that the exhaust is a tiny point of blazing light. It’s much brighter than a candle or fire. It has the brightness quality of the sun, but much less so. The closest thing I can think of is when I saw burning magnesium, only this is yellow instead of blue. It’s too far and too bright to see the body of the rocket. I’ll see plenty of that afterwards.
My heart is still; it’s waiting. I don’t know what’s going to happen. This isn’t a movie, and anything could happen. I have to pay attention, because it matters. We are all in this together, humanity, and I need to know whether what we’ve done has worked.
The rocket climbs through a different layer of the atmosphere and starts to make a contrail. I raise my binoculars and follow it from here.
I’ve seen enough live-streamed launches to know what this part looks like. The exhaust plume is widening out like a flower because the atmospheric pressure is dropping. Technically that’s all lost momentum that could have been used to push the rocket forward, but the nozzle is designed to operate optimally at sea level.
The seconds drift by, and it feels unreal. I can tell by the width of the plume that the side boosters are going to drop soon. With the rocket almost lost into the haze of Rayleigh scattering, the webcast calls out BECO; booster engine cutoff. I see the now dim orange flame switch off into white smoke, and little diffuse streams start coming out the sides. The boosters are falling.
At each new event, the webcast call out, and the cheering of the crowd pulses and washes over itself. It never dies down completely. I lose sight of the booster trail through the distance and a cloud. I bring the binoculars down and give my mind a rest. We have a while before anything else will be seen. The center core is too far downrange; all that will come from the webcast. I look around the sky and take in the sight of my first rocket contrail. I remember the decibel meter on my phone. It was never very loud; roaring, rippling, crunching, yes, but less loud than the airplane ride here.
I wander over to get a better view of the screen. They switch to the payload camera. Music begins and builds up, and precisely at the climax, they call out fairing separation, and in a flash of light the Starman in his roadster are visible against the blue earth. Never before have so many cheered for fairing separation, and never before in the 21st century have so many felt represented by a human figure in space.
The artistic peak has been achieved, but the show is not over. We must have missed the boostback burn behind the cloud, but people start to see the boosters now. I squint and shift and follow other people’s pointing. Eventually, I see them. Two specks, bright white, but lit only by the sun. I raise my binoculars.
Have you ever seen a tower falling from the sky? In a sight like no other, these machines drifted through the air, both bizarrely out of place and designed exclusively for this purpose.
The Falcon booster is 16 stories tall. Imagine standing in front of a 16 story tower; now imagine it falling through the air. Through the binoculars I saw two of those, clear as day. Enough to distinguish the charred landing legs from the white body, and writing on the side. These towers are in freefall, and in absolute control of their destination. They fall with confidence, diving like the bird of their namesake, conserving their energy for the last few seconds.
Something will happen between now and those final moments. We know what we hope happens. We have done all we know how to ensure it. And now we must watch.
The giants begin their entry burn, and the retro-thrusting engulfs their bodies in flame. They are blazing points of light in the sky now, those twin birds of fury, and we howl for their return. They sear the sky and the entry burn ends. As they resume freefall toward the horizon, we don’t know whether we will see the final landing burn before they disappear behind the building in front of us.
Just a few degrees above the building, the flames appear once more, and the roar of the crowd follows. They float down in levitation, blink out of view, and the webcast confirms; “The Falcons have landed.”
BA-BOOM. BA-BOOM. As if celebratory fireworks, the pair of double sonic booms returns our celebratory calls. Of course, they weren’t generated on landing; they were generated 30 seconds ago on descent, delayed by as much time as it would have taken the rockets to get to us when the sound was made.
My voice is sore. This part of the mission has been completed to perfection. The rest we will have to learn later. The fate of the center core remains unknown. My mind is left to itself now, amongst the thousands of other witnesses.
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Siegfried Huigen is affiliate Professor of Dutch Literature and Cultural background on the college of Stellenbosch, in South Africa. His examine pursuits are early sleek commute writing and the background of colonial technological know-how and scholarship. he's the writer of De weg naar Monomotapa (1996) and data and Colonialism; Eighteenth-Century visitors in South Africa (2007 and 2009), and (co)editor of numerous books on South African politics of reminiscence and colonial discourse. he's at the moment getting to know eighteenth-century Dutch representations of the East Indies.Jan L. de Jong did his Ph.D. at Leiden collage and now teaches Italian Renaissance paintings on the college of Groningen, The Netherlands. He has released various articles on Italian portray and has a manuscript on papal propaganda within the Renaissance set for e-book. He edited a number of volumes of Intersections: Interdisciplinary experiences in Early glossy tradition. His present examine makes a speciality of studies of tourists to Italy within the 16th century.Elmer Kolfin studied paintings heritage and sleek western literature on the college of Utrecht. He obtained his Ph.D. in artwork background at Leiden college and presently teaches paintings historical past on the collage of Amsterdam. He publishes as a rule on 17th century Dutch portray, prints and e-book representation. He has initiated and edited a quantity on political prints of the Dutch stadtholders (2007) and co-edited the exhibition catalogue Black is gorgeous. Rubens to Dumas, at the illustration of blacks in Dutch artwork.
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000 souls. If it had been solely in the VOC’s hands, the Cape Colony would have remained confined to a small part of the Western Cape. The intention was to appropriate no more land than was necessary to provide the ships calling in Table Bay with food. However, after 1657 the VOC needed the help of independent colonists to achieve this goal, as the nomadic Khoikhoi did not practise agriculture and could not supply enough cattle for slaughter either. In search of grazing lands for their sheep and cattle, the colonists spread out into the interior.
The wilderness is something out there, something alien. At first glance, the image given by Barlaeus appears to be reducible to the dichotomy coast/interior. Between what is known or comprehensible – the colony – and what is not – the wilderness – runs a clear frontier. The unknown territory simultaneously generates curiosity and threat, resulting in an ambivalent desire to seek and frame the wilderness. 43 During the centuries of colonization this border was gradually displaced, as more territories and Indians were incorporated in the space of the self.
1 About 300 years earlier, Elias Herckmans, a national poet, was sent out by the Dutch West India Company to Brazil where he was also confronted with this culturally other reality. The question that is central to my analysis is quite straightforward: How did Herckmans respond to this otherness? Dutch Brazil The Dutch colonists participating in the Brazilian adventure are often portrayed as traders seeking for profit. Neither interested in the founding of a settlement, nor in the local reality, it is generally assumed that they did not try to adjust to their new environment, but rather stuck to their old habits and customs.
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Faculty of Military Technology
The Graduates of the UoD FMT Aviation Specialties "touched the stars"
• In addition to the military parade and graduation ceremony for the successful students of the University of Defense in Brno, the Faculty of Military Technologies organizes, through the Department of Air Force, the act of handing in the badges of the aviation specialties held on the occasion of terminating their study. The ceremony took place at the Brno Observatory and Planetarium on July 25, 2019.
Members of Air Force Department presented theirs research at 37th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, London, UK
• The 37th meeting of the Digital Avionics Systems Conference has continued in the rich profile of a preeminent aviation industry and research institution conference by focusing on avionics, communication, navigation and surveillance hardware and software systems, as well as human factors in aviation.
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• At the University of Defense we study air traffic control and during the internship we had a chance to take a part of a two-week „Basic ATC procedure course" provided by the Simulaton centre in the Armed forces academy of gen. M.R.Štefánik which is located in Liptovský Mikuláš. Goal of this course was to expand our theoretical and mainly practical skills regarding air traffic control.
Bulgarian cadet for Erasmus+ spring study period by Department of Air Force and Aircraft Technology
• As an Erasmus+ student at the University of Defence, Brno I had a lifetime opportunity to study in an international environment, to acquire new skills and special knowledge. I participated in classes, focused on my further education as a cadet in Bulgaria - in particular, I studied Avionics, Air Force Tactics, Communication, etc. Thus, I could develop as a specialist in Navigation, Communication and Surveillance Systems. I am grateful to my Czech teachers to present me, by other way, the aviation environment.
Future aircraft engineer from Technical University of Kosice spent 6 months on Erasmus+ at University of Defence
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest CAMILITA NUTTALL on air from January 12th
What happens when you bring Champions together? You Win………
I went from the Public Dump in Trinidad to building a Global Brand, teaching others how the Monetise their Destiny and earn multiple 6 Figures, you can too, if your ready for the ride to your destiny.
Do you run your own business or a high level professional in any industry? We want to show you how you too can LIVE your life BIGGER & BETTER and Earn what you are worth. IT’S ABOUT TIME!
Described as a ‘Rock Star’ International Speaker, Camilita Nuttall is a Master Motivator, 7 Times Award Winning Corporate Sales Trainer, Executive Business Mentor, Entrepreneur & Real Estate Investor. Camilita, through her various seminars teach and empower others to ‘Fight for their Future AND WIN’.
Known as an inspiration, Camilita’s straight talking, bold, highly infectious personality, that brims with passion, has motivated thousands across the world over the last 12 years. Her think-big, no-nonsense approach, coupled with warmth and humour, will leave you challenged and transformed, ready to achieve extraordinary things.
Camilita has empowered her audience from Birmingham City University Business School, BBC WM and Wales UK’s largest Business Show – Introbiz. Camilita has appeared in Celebrate Business Magazines in the USA & Europe, Guardian Radio in the Bahamas and interviewed on Bahamas National TV – ZNS. She is also on the Council of Reference for Premier Radio in the UK.
Camilita left Trinidad for the UK penniless but after 4 years had a net worth of over £1Million in Property. She has been a top sales person in a NWM company for not only 1, but 7 connective years in Europe. She also engineered a major sales force in over 30 countries where she created some of the biggest sales teams and the BIGGEST launch in the company’s history that got unto NBC News in USA. Camilita has lived in Spain, Germany, Trinidad, Netherlands and the UK and has travelled to over 50 countries.
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Camilita is the epitome of success against the most impossible odds. The youngest of 11 children, Camilita’s parents didn’t have enough funds for her to even start secondary school, so Camilita, along with her mother, went on the public dump to ‘hustle’ through large mounds of waste and rubbish, looking for empty bottles to sell. Camilita knew she had to escape that poverty so she studied hard, enrolled in Law School, came to the UK, launched two successful businesses in Network Marketing, got on the housing ladder, built a property portfolio and started public speaking.
Camilita is currently in a strategic alliance with Sharon Lechter and her work with The Napolean Hill Foundation. She was mentioned by Sharon Lechter in New York Times Best Seller – ‘Think & Grow Rich for Women’. Dr. J B Hill, grandson of ‘Napoleon Hill’ quoted Camilita in front of 20,000 people as saying ‘There is no better time than the present to take action to succeed’.
Camilita’s Book is due out in 2016 and will highlight her journey and success principles from the rubbish dump in Trinidad to running 3 successful businesses. Camilita believes this book will touch millions of lives around the world and people from all walks of life will benefit from the book’s principles.
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Camilita with Sharon Lechter one on the Event speakers.
Camilita is mentioned in New Times Best Seller – ‘Think & Grow Rich for Women’ written by Sharon Lechter. Dr. J B Hill, grandson of ‘Napoleon Hill’ quoted Camilita in front of 20,000 people as saying ‘There is no better time than the present to take action to succeed’. Video on Camilita’s YouTube Channel. youtube.
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Tips: How to Find Check Number and Encashment Information - 08/11/09
Staff often ask Accounts Payable (AP) two questions concerning payments to vendors: “How do I find the check number for a payment to a vendor?” and “How do I determine if the check has been cashed?”
AP’s answer: “It depends.”
Detailed, illustrated instructions answering both these questions are now available on the Business @ Purdue Web site on the Finance/Payments & Reimbursements page under the “Tips” heading.
According to AP, if the payment is purchase-order (PO) related, the check number and encashment information can be obtained by using T-code ME23N to drill down into the details of the invoice.
If the payment is for a non-PO vendor or individual, first use T-code FBL1N to locate payment in the vendor history. Once found, drill down into the details of the invoice by double clicking on the document number.
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I was going to be at the Indie Author Fair this Sunday at the Chorleywood Literary Festival, but am going to have to cancel. I’ve had a minor procedure planned for a while (nothing serious), but my local hospital has rescheduled it for this Friday, and I’m going to spend the weekend recuperating.
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This was our 4th autumn/winter stay at Floridays. The sites are more spacious than at most campgrounds. The washrooms and laundry facilities are new and kept clean. Downtown Hobe Sound has all amenities and is about 1 mile from the campground. We can also easily walk/run or bike to the beach (about 2 miles).
George, the manager’s Tiki Bar is often open for Happy Hour, cookouts, karaoke, etc. George and his staff are very helpful and will do their best to make your stay a pleasant one.
We have already booked for next year.
—Gervais and Suzanne Roy (Canada)
My wife and I have stayed at the Floridays RV Park for the past 5 winters now and have found this park very friendly. It has only about 70 sites most of them with a cemented pad that is next to your RV and a large one in front that can accommodate two vehicles. The owner had a new bathroom with an attached laundry room built.
Although this park has no swimming pool, it is located only 2 miles from Jupiter Island Beach where runners, cyclists, boaters and sport fishermen can all enjoy. George, the park manager, will make everything so that your stay will be everything you hoped for. Shopping is only 20 minutes to Stuart or Jupiter.
I would highly recommend that you give this park a try.
—Bruno and Claudette Arseneau
My wife and I have been coming to Floridays for eight seasons. We love this Park. It is in the small town of Hobe Sound snuggled comfortably between Jupiter and Stuart on the east coast of south Florida.
Each RV site is quite large with a cement patio and driveway with 50/30 amp service. The Park has a beautiful brand new handicap-friendly bathhouse and laundry facilities. The manager George is very friendly and helpful. He also has a BYOB Tiki Bar at the back of his house/office and most afternoons Happy Hour is enjoyed there and on special event days there is usually a potluck-style dinner.
The world-famous Jupiter Island and its beach is just two miles away. There are excellent and safe trails and roads for running and biking enthusiasts. The local stores include grocery, banks, gas, hardware, many fine resturants and of course thrift stores. All the major shopping facilities are within twenty minutes. We would recommend Floridays RV Park to anyone that likes enjoyable camping without the hassle of big city life and traffic.
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CURATED BY COREY OBERLANDER AND LINDSEY STAPLETON
1 E. CENTER STREET, FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS
JANUARY 22ND - FEBRUARY 21ST
RECEPTION: JANUARY 22ND, 6-8 PM
Curators Corey Oberlander and Lindsey Stapleton present a collection of work by artists working within a set of self-defined boundaries; working within, around and between these drawn lines. Focusing on their practice and process, GROUND RULES will exemplify the variation and deviation that can exist within these parameters.
Painter-cum-sculptor Matthew King discovers great variation within his restricted toolkit. Working with limited palette and composition, King references the minimalist powerhouses of the 60's and 70's while letting the hand of the artist remain a consistent variable throughout each collection. In the smaller works, King employs nostalgic imagery, repeating shape and color patterns that move the viewer through the series effortlessly. The large works exude a sense of time - the conceptual and physical labor not-hidden behind seamless lines or smooth surfaces.
Using labor as a medium in its own right, Charlie Smith saws, drills, paints and jams raw materials into place. Through repetitive common actions of 'building'. Smith applies labor to form to labor to form, changing the identity of his original object and making it something new. The new "thing" becomes the piece, wherein the qualities of the paint and wood and concrete and labor and paper are blended together to become a tangible manifestation of this process. These created personalities are stubborn, humorously self-deprecating and complicated; expressive in their simplicity.
Heather Leigh McPherson has invested much of her time in exploring expression. Her latest body of work deals with painting, digital expression, and contemporary models of subjectivity. Despite a cross disciplinary approach, McPherson's process embodies a concise grouping of traits across pieces. Her palette, mark-making and compositions remain consistent. She employs the same face over and over, exploring multifaceted expressions compounded by flurries of activity in paint and Photoshop. These painterly marks allow for not only variation within her approach, but also within the emotions and expression of her composition. Movement, occasionally literal, keeps the viewer discovering nuance and intent when looking at these similar compositions.
Ross Normandin is, on some level, making the same piece over and over. For his series titled Wins, Crashes, Normandin is focused on the process of making instead of the final results. Attempting to remove the possibility of a "favorite," Normandin's paintings each hold the same material, composition and process. However, subtleties prevail and Normandin forces particular character into his limited materials and compositions.
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The application deadline for summer jobs was March 31. Applicants will be contacted in mid-April.
We are accepting applications for the position of club manager; see the job description. If you are interested, please send your application and cover letter to:
Gregory Seahurst Swim Club
Attn: Rick Box
PO Box 818
Seahurst WA 98062
We are initially offering this position to Gregory members. If we are unable to find a suitable candidate, we will broadcast to a larger audience. Applications are due April 4, 2011, and we will be conducting interviews shortly after. Our goal is to have a manager in place by April 11.
Experience with HTML and FTP required
Your own copy of Dreamweaver software a plus, but not necessary (current site uses Dreamweaver templates)
Graphic design experience (including working with images for Web) a plus
Understanding of domain name providers and web hosting services
Update Web pages with info provided by pool manager, board members, and coaches
Maintain online calendar with schedules for pool, team, lesson, and event schedules
Provide guidance on and assist with management of Google groups (gssc-pool, gssc teams)
Additional design work for the 2011 season is desired. This may involve additional "sections" of the site (currently Membership, Facilities & Use, Teams, Lessons, etc.), new logo and color scheme, and addition of photo rolls/slide shows.
Furthermore, the Board is considering a team hosting service that provides the site framework (templates, hosting, calendaring, etc.) in one package.
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When Amy Acuff brings her 2-year-old daughter to the track, she has to adjust her workout while Elsa plays in the sand pit.
“She doesn’t want me going too far away from her,” Acuff said.
Going higher is not a problem.
Acuff, who rose to prominence among U.S. high jumpers in the 1990s, is clearing heights like she did before retiring in 2009 and giving birth to Elsa on May 15, 2010.
Never mind that she’s 36 years old and will be 37 this summer during the London 2012 Olympic Games, potentially her fifth consecutive trip to the Games.
“If I don’t have a personal best this season, I would be pretty surprised,” said Acuff, whose PR is 6-feet-7 – five inches above her head – set in 2003. “It’s going that well.”
Acuff is a six-time U.S. outdoor champion ('95, '97, '01, '03, '05, '07) and five-time U.S. Indoor champ ('01, '04, '07, '08, '09) whose best Olympic finish was fourth place in 2004 in Athens.
“It’s amazing that after all the years of hard work and thinking about it, that you can find a way to do it better,” said Acuff, who cleared 6 feet for the first time way back in 1990 as a teenager.
Living in Austin, Texas, with her husband Tye Harvey, the 2001 World Indoor silver medalist in the pole vault, Acuff had no intention of a comeback when she started exercising for fitness last year.
But she was taken aback by her own core strength. The first day Acuff stepped into a gym, she picked up a 14-pound medicine ball and easily performed an exercise series that used to challenge her with an eight-pound ball.
“My only explanation for that was that I have a 25-pound baby that I do that with all day long,” Acuff said.
When she started doing workouts, “Within a couple of weeks, it seemed like I was pretty much as fast as I was before,” Acuff said. “(I thought) ‘Why did I train all that time if I could just do nothing for two years and come back so quickly?’”
There were some challenges, naturally, such as regaining the flexibility she had always taken for granted. Acuff also had to work on coordination and timing. But with a minimalist training program and listening to her body, she has avoided the nagging injuries that caused her pain for much of the last decade she competed.
By November, Acuff was locked into seeing it through the competitive season.
“It’s kind of like planting the garden,” she said, “You’ve got to do a lot of groundwork, and you don’t really see the results, the blooms, till many months later, but I felt comfortable at that time that things were going as planned.”
The blooms appeared on March 31 in Austin, when Acuff leaped 6-4¾, probably her highest opener ever. It also matched her season bests in 2007, ’08 and ’09.
“I just feel a little more confident this year in terms of my max potential,” Acuff said. “I’m probably not as polished, but I just really feel open to big possibilities.”
With the season still early, a quartet of U.S. high jumpers lead the world list. Only American record holder Chaunté Lowe, who has jumped 6-6 ¾ and 6-6, has gone higher than Acuff, while Brigetta Barrett and Inika McPherson have also leaped 6-4¾. The U.S. Olympic Trials for Track and Field are set for June 21-July 1 in Eugene, Ore.
“To make the team, that (height) would be more than adequate,” Acuff said. “To win a medal, it would require probably more.”
When the Port Arthur, Texas, native initially told her agent, Jeff Hartwig, that she was launching a comeback, he had no doubts. Age, he knew, was no deterrent. After all, he made the 2008 Olympic team in the pole vault at age 40.
“I thought, ‘That’s awesome,’ ” Hartwig said. “I know how competitive she is. Amy didn’t go into this with the attitude of, ‘I just want to try to eke out a third-place finish at the Trials and make my fifth Olympic team. I think she really feels like she wants to make another run at a medal.”
Acuff would be only the third U.S. track and field athlete to compete in five Games, following sprinter/long jumper Willye White (1956-72) and sprinter/hurdler Gail Devers (1988-2004).
Since she made her first Olympic team in 1996 at age 21, tying for 20th in the qualifying round, the Games have reflected the progression in Acuff’s life.
Before the 2000 Olympic Games, Acuff, who has also drawn plenty of attention as a model, appeared on the cover of “Vogue”. She finished 17th in the qualifying round in Sydney.
In 2004, despite placing third in the U.S. Olympic Trials, Acuff was the only U.S. finalist and her fourth-place finish was the highest by an American since Louise Ritter won the in 1988.
Then in Beijing, with rain making the conditions slippery, Acuff was ninth in her qualifying round and missed the final. She retired after placing 12th at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, marking her eighth straight Worlds.
“Athens was a fond memory,” Acuff said, “clearing 6-6 ¼ on a first attempt, which launched me into the medals, and then I was pushed out. It was very exciting to be in the mix at the end. That’s what I would like to achieve again.”
Luckily, she doesn’t need a lot of meets to stay sharp, since the pickings are slim at this time of year in Texas. Acuff hopes to “scrounge” some all-comer’s meets at Rice University, which is about a three-hour drive.
“Sometimes there’s no one else entered in your event,” she said, “or it’s a 12-year-old girl and a 50-year- old woman. I just have to make sure somebody enters. It’s anticlimactic if you go compete by yourself and no one enters your event and you know it’s not even going to count on the books.”
Three people must enter for the event to count. “I have a friend that runs the hurdles and we may have to enter each other’s events to fill them up,” Acuff said. “Then I’ll walk off after the gun.
“I don’t know how to hurdle.”
In her only other major meet, the Drake Relays in April, Acuff placed second behind Lowe. With the temperature failing to rise above the 50s, Lowe jumped 6-6, but Acuff only 6-0 ¾.
“We have a really good relationship,” Acuff said of Lowe, who has two daughters. “We ran into each other at the restaurant downstairs in the hotel before the meet and had a nice little meal together and talked about kids and jumping and life.”
Acuff’s daughter was only about two weeks old when Lowe broke Ritter’s 22-year-old American record, jumping 6-8 ¼.
“That was totally off my radar and no one told me about it for a month or two,” Acuff said. “She’s dealt with a lot, so I really was genuinely happy to see her achieve that and enjoy that success.”
Acuff said that her two years away from the sport helped her gain perspective.
“When you’re immersed in it and it’s your livelihood and your identity and everything rolled into one, it can be too much focus,” she said, “and it’s good to just kind of step away from it.”
Taking a break also “cleared the slate for me to build a better technique and even probably my mental approach to things,” Acuff said.
At the track, she basically coaches herself with the help of a video camera and sometimes her husband, who provides another set of eyes. Acuff works on efficiency and mechanics with a lot less volume than in the past.
“With her experience and intuition and knowledge base about how not only her body works, but what her body responds to, that’s pretty invaluable,” Hartwig said. “But she wouldn’t be in this position had she not put in the volume and the hard work previously. It’s not like she can just take it easy now and still get better.”
Acuff has also integrated Pilates into what she does on the track. Working with Georgia Shaw, who helps elite athletes around Austin, Acuff has broken some bad habits.
“My left hip on my takeoff leg would kind of rotate out and jam into my socket when I would try to jump,” she said. “It wasn’t an ideal movement pattern, and she gave me a lot of insight into how to correct that and make that joint work more efficiently. If I hadn’t done that early on and laid that groundwork, it would have been a house of cards.”
The “ageless Amy Acuff,” as one track publication calls her, also helps others reach their potential. As a licensed acupuncturist, she shares an office with a chiropractor and a massage therapist.
“We get a lot of athletes,” Acuff said. “My patients that come to see me are in better shape than I am. I’ve got 80-year-old men that do triathlons. That’s also a great source of inspiration to see all this fitness and health around me. “
And she’s an inspiration to them, too. “They like,” Acuff said, “that they’ll have someone to cheer for this summer.”
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The 15th season of The Bachelor premiered on January 3, 2011. It featured 38-year-old Brad Womack, a winemaker.
Brad who previously appeared as The Bachelor in season 11, where he rejected both of his final two women, returned as the Bachelor for this season.
Counting 30 women, unlike the 25 in previous seasons (made this the first Bachelor season to have 30 suitors and the second time in the franchise's history, season five of The Bachelorette was the first).
Womack is the only person to be the bachelor on The Bachelor twice.
He ultimately chose to propose to Emily Maynard.
Filming and developmentEdit
Casting and contestantsEdit
Casting began during the 14th season of the show. Potential candidates for this season including Womack, as well as Ty Brown and Chris Lambton from the 6th season of The Bachelorette. Both Brown and Lambton turned down the offer, Womack was selected as the next Bachelor and was announced during the live show of season 11 of Dancing with the Stars.
One of the season's contestants, Emily Maynard, was the fiancée of NASCAR driver Ricky Hendrick.
This season traveled to far-flung locales in Las Vegas, Nevada, Costa Rica, the British overseas territory of Anguilla and South Africa. With performances by Train and Seal.
The season began with 30 contestants.
Ashley Hebert was chosen as the bachelorette for the 7th season of The Bachelorette.
Alli Travis, Jackie Gordon, Melissa Schreiber and Michelle Money returned for the 2nd season of Bachelor Pad, where they finished in 17th/18th, 15th, 11th/12th and 3rd/4th individually.
Shawntel Newton made an appearance in the 16th season of The Bachelor, and was eliminated by bachelor Ben Flajnik the night she arrived.
Emily Maynard was later chosen as the bachelorette for the 8th season of The Bachelorette.
Michelle Money returned again for the 1st season of Bachelor in Paradise and won that season with Bachelor Nation alumnus Cody Sattler.
|1||Chantal O.||Ashley S.||Ashley H.||Ashley S.||Chantal O.||Shawntel N.||Chantal O.||Ashley H.||Ashley H.||Chantal O.||Emily|
|2||Kimberly||Michelle||Michelle||Shawntel N.||Britt||Emily||Ashley H.||Emily||Emily||Emily||Chantal O.|
|3||Alli||Kimberly||Jackie||Emily||Michelle||Ashley H.||Emily||Shawntel N.||Chantal O.||Ashley H.|
|4||Ashley S.||Madison||Emily||Michelle||Ashley S.||Michelle||Britt||Chantal O.||Shawntel N.|
|5||Meghan||Emily||Chantal O.||Chantal O.||Alli||Alli||Shawntel N.||Michelle|
|6||Marissa||Raichel||Sarah P.||Lisa M.||Emily||Britt||Michelle||Britt|
|8||Ashley H.||Ashley H.||Kimberly||Ashley H.||Lisa M.||Chantal O.||Alli|
|9||Raichel||Meghan||Shawntel N.||Marissa||Jackie||Lisa M.|
|11||Melissa||Lindsay||Ashley S.||Alli||Ashley H.||Ashley S.|
|13||Cristy||Sarah P.||Lisa M.||Meghan||Meghan|
|27||Sarah L.||Lisa P.|
|The contestant received a first impression rose.|
|The contestant received a rose during the date.|
|The contestant received a rose after getting advice from Ali and Roberto.|
|The contestant was eliminated.|
|The contestant was eliminated during the date.|
|The contestant quit the competition.|
|The contestant won the competition.|
|No. in season||Title||Original air date|
|1||"Week 1: The Bachelorette Arrivals"||January 3, 2011|
|Bachelor BRAD WOMACK -- considered by many to be "the most hated Bachelor" in the series' history -- returns for another chance at love as he chooses from among 30 women.|
|2||"Week 2: Train Performs in Private Concert"||January 10, 2011|
|The 20 remaining bachelorettes move into their luxurious Malibu mansion and the fairy tale begins. Two lucky women will get fabulous one-on-one dates: Brad escorts one bachelorette on a fantasy date which culminates at the Hollywood Bowl, where they will be serenaded by the chartbusting band Train. The other individual date finds Brad and another stunning woman on an incredibly romantic date to a private carnival. The group date will give 15 women a chance show Brad another side of their personality as they shoot public service announcements (PSA) for the American Red Cross, but it turns into a steamy face-off between some of the ladies. However, some of the bachelorettes will not have a date at all before the next rose ceremony, encouraging them to aggressively steal any time they can with Brad.|
|3||"Week 3: Action Movie Date"||January 17, 2011|
|Tensions are already mounting among the 17 remaining bachelorettes and resentment runs high when it's revealed there'll be two special one-on-one dates - each with a rose at stake - and a group date. And once again, some women will not get a date at all. Ashley S. gets to duet with Brad at the famed Capitol Records studio when a surprise visit by superstar recording artist Seal makes this a once-in-a-lifetime date. Then Brad gets down and dirty with 12 very competitive bachelorettes when they shoot their own action adventure movie, as they battle to become his leading lady. Emily, the sweet, single mom, is chosen for the week's final individual date, but will she be able to reveal her tragic past to Brad? An emotional Bachelor makes some personal inroads with the help of his therapist, letting him be more vulnerable with the women. However, one mysterious bachelorette makes a stunning departure that throws Brad for a loop and leaves the women in shock.|
|4||"Week 4: Radio Show Date"||January 24, 2011|
|The drama continues to escalate as 14 fortunate bachelorettes try to stake their claim to Brad's heart. But the week gets off to a mysterious start when one baffled bachelorette wakes up with a black eye - and has no clue about how she got it. Did she fall while sleep walking or is it just a disturbing ploy to get Brad's attention? The Bachelor has an underwater fantasy in mind when he takes Chantal on a one-on-one date to beautiful Catalina Island, but the thought of submerging to the ocean floor has the nervous bachelorette wondering if she left her sense of adventure on shore. A group of the ladies have one of the most revealing dates of the season as they join Brad as guests on an emotional radio show where secrets are uncovered about the women's love lives. And the bruised Michelle finds out she must take a courageous leap of faith with Brad or risk falling from his favor. Finally, Emily becomes the target of fiery jealousy among the women when Brad offers her a special picnic ...|
|5||"Week 5: Las Vegas Dates"||January 31, 2011|
|The eleven remaining bachelorettes leave the mansion and travel to exciting Las Vegas, but two nervous women - Ashley H. and Ashley S. - face the dreaded "two-on-one" date where one of them will be sent home immediately. How will Brad handle making a heartbreaking decision at the end of the night? The Bachelor takes eight competitive ladies out for the ride of their lives at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Shawntel gets a one-on-one date that would be the envy of every woman -- an upscale shopping spree, and the sky's the limit. Then, as an exhausting week comes to an end, Brad must confront the escalating drama that has been building with the bachelorettes all week as he prepares to take eight women around the world with him in his search to find love.|
|6||"Week 6: Costa Rica"||February 7, 2011|
|The eight remaining women travel to Costa Rica. The stakes are ratcheted up as Chantal gets a second one-on-one date to zipline through the thick jungle. But when rain threatens to dampen their spirits, but will it cool off their passion? Brad escorts six bachelorettes on a challenging date to the middle of the rain forest, where he and the women must rappel down a waterfall. The night turns serious as Brad surprises all the ladies with his rose selection. Then Alli gets her first individual date, but has to face her greatest fear when she and Brad explore a cave together. And Michelle decides to pay the Bachelor an unexpected late night visit in his room. Dramatic revelations at the rose ceremony kick everyone's emotions into high gear.|
|7||"Week 7: Anguilla"||February 14, 2011|
|The pressure is mounting on Brad as he struggles to decide which four women he will escort home to meet their families. But first, the remaining six bachelorettes continue their adventurous trip around the world to the romantic Caribbean island of Anguilla. Emily soars to new heights with Brad on a helicopter tour of the island, but storm clouds gather for the couple when the possibility of a hometown date and the prospect of Brad meeting Emily's daughter are discussed. Then Shawntel and Brad use the island as their personal playground as this outspoken bachelorette makes her feelings known. Brad takes Britt for her first one-on-one date, and it's up to the Bachelor to make sure the romantic connection is electric. Finally, Ashley H., Chantal and Michelle get an early wake-up call from Brad to participate in a seductive shoot for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. Emotions are raw and revealing -- in more ways than one -- but Brad has still another surprise for the women...|
|8||"Week 8: Brad's Hometown Dates"||February 21, 2011|
|The stakes are high for Brad as he leaves on an exciting, emotionally charged trip across the country to visit the final four women's hometowns. How will he withstand the scrutiny of Chantal's very successful entrepreneurial father? Will Ashley H.'s ambitious career goals stand in her way of finding love with Brad? Will Shawntel, the beautiful mortician, be able to stand up to her father and his long held, cherished plans for her to succeed him in the family business? Finally, will Brad get to meet Emily's daughter, who she has never been introduced to anyone she has dated, and how will that decision affect their relationship? Everyone meets in NY as Brad makes another gut-wrenching decision to narrow the field to the final three women.|
|9||"Week 9: South Africa"||February 28, 2011|
|Romantic adventures await Brad and the final three women as they travel to spectacular South Africa. From a remarkable safari, to a private ride on an elephant, to a picnic high atop majestic cliffs known as "God's Window," the dates are filled with passion and excitement, as Brad continues to explore what his future would be like with each of these potential mates. At the end of each evening, Brad will present the bachelorette with an invitation to spend an intimate night together in a "fantasy suite," with the hope that she will accept. But will she? It's a wild, romantic ride with each of the women - until Brad makes a shocking, heart-wrenching decision he thought he would never have to make.|
|10||"The Women Tell All"||March 7, 2011|
|Brad faces the women he rejected, as 15 of the season's most memorable bachelorettes confront him -- and each other! A sneak peek of the season finale is also seen.|
|11||"Week 10: Finale"||March 14, 2011|
|In this dramatic conclusion, Brad, who came back for a second chance at love, prepares to make one of the most difficult choices of this life. His search for love is now narrowed down to two very different women - Chantal and Emily -- and he is falling in love with both of them. Now, after having his family meet them in Cape Town, South Africa, and under immense pressure, he must make one final heart-wrenching decision that could change his life forever. After three years of soul-searching, will he be able to propose to one of the women -- and will she say yes?|
|12||"After The Final Rose"||March 14, 2011|
|With Brad's search for his soul mate over, emotions run high as he talks to Chris Harrison about both Chantal and Emily, recounting those final days in South Africa.|
Where are they now?Edit
Womack and Maynard broke up while their season was airing, but got back together after the show's finale. However, they called it quits for good in May 2011 but remained friends.
Maynard married Tyler Johnson in 2014 and they have a son, Jennings. They welcomed a second son, Gibson Kyle, on September 16, 2016. On August 29, 2017, they announced that they are expecting their third child in a few weeks. Their child was born on November 12, 2017.
Ashley and J.P. got married on December 1, 2012 and their wedding aired as a TV Special on December 16, 2012. They have a son named Fordham Rhys, born on September 30, 2014 and a daughter, Essex Reese, born on November 4, 2016.
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The group from Brazil was part of an exchange program that promotes one of Rotary’s goals this year of peace through service. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace is one of the cornerstones of the Rotary movement.
The meeting was held to allow citizens of the Tri-Community to meet and exchange ideas with the young professionals from Rotary District 4540 in Brazil. It also allowed the local people that were invited to the meeting to learn about Rotary.
Benny De Santiago, President of the San Manuel Rotary introduced the group. The Rotarians from Brazil each spoke to the group of around 24 people. They spoke about Brazil and what they do for a living.
Mauricio Gasparini was the group leader. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Law and a Master’s degree in Business Management. He is a professional musician and along with his twin brother, Marcelo makes up the duo Mauricio & Marcelo.
They travel all over Brazil performing country music and they have their own television show in Ribeirao Preto. Mauricio is also a member of the City Council in Ribeirao Preto.
Cristiane Porsani Borsari has a degree in Business Administration. She manages the family owned business Borsari Drugstore in Araraquara. She also teaches English to adult beginners.
Caroline de Souza Guanaes Santos is a banker and has worked for Citibank for five years. The bank she manages is located in Ribeirao Preto Norte. She is the President of her local Rotary.
Otavio Martins Soares graduated in Business Administration and works at Industrial and Commercial Association of Ribeirao Preto as an adviser of the Board and its President. In 2000-2001 Otavio lived in Geneva, New York as an exchange student.
While there, he learned to love American football, basketball and baseball. He is a Dallas Cowboy, Chicago Bulls and New York Yankee fan. He would like to be a diplomat one day.
Jean Ridrigo Galindo has a Bachelors degree in Linguistics and a postgraduate in English Education. He is a teacher in Morro Agudo. He is the coordinator for the Catholic Charismatic Renewal group, which works with youth projects.
Jefferson Lopes Jorge is a Police Captain. He is the commander of the police in Sao Carlos, a city with a population of 220,000. He lives with his wife Angelica and son Pedro Enrique in Sao Carlos. He supervises 215 police officers.
The Brazilians mingled with the audience members, answered questions and exchanged ideas. Romos provided an excellent buffet luncheon for everyone.
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Do I Get Paid if I’m Injured in an Accident at Work?
Yes. If you’ve suffered an injury in an accident at work in England or Wales and you’re unable to work for at least 4 consecutive days, your employer has to pay you Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). Alternatively, they may have their own sick pay scheme in place which pays out a higher amount.
However, claiming compensation may be the only way to ensure you get the full amount of pay you’ve lost, and be able to afford any medical treatment, care and rehabilitation without putting yourself under financial pressure.
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Do I Have a Claim?
It’s your employer’s duty to take reasonable care of your health and safety at work, and take the necessary measures to reduce the risks of accidents in the workplace. For example, your employer should:
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Our Personal Injury Solicitors negotiate with insurers on a daily basis to get the best possible compensation settlements for our clients. It’s often the case that we negotiate a higher settlement than initially offered by an insurer. In one particular work accident case, the insurer offered £85,000 compensation but we pursued the case until the settlement offer was increased to £300,000 compensation; which our client accepted.
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To qualify for SSP, you must:
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- Earn at least £118 a week on average
- Inform your employer that you’re unable to work before their deadline, or within 7 days if they don’t have a deadline.
Your employer may also have an occupational sickness scheme of their own in place, which may be fairly generous when compared with SSP, so it’s worth looking at your employment contract to find out what you’re entitled to.
If you aren’t eligible for SSP, you may be entitled to apply for Universal Credit or Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). Remember that SSP may not necessarily cover your entire wage, which is a good reason to find out how much compensation you could be entitled to.
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How Much Sick Pay Should I Receive?
You’re entitled to £94.25 a week in SSP if you’re unable to work following an accident in the workplace. Your employer must pay this amount for up to 28 weeks. If your employer has an occupational sickness scheme, details of the amount you should be paid in sick pay will be outlined in your employment contract.
Time Limit on Accident at Work Claims
You must make a claim within 3 years of your accident taking place. Otherwise, you may be too late to claim a settlement that compensates you for the pain, suffering and loss of amenity you’ve experienced, and the financial impact of your accident, such as medical fees, travel expenses and loss of earnings.
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Drexel alumnus and chef Chip Roman, who graduated in 2002 from Goodwin College’s culinary arts program, was recently honored by GQ magazine, which placed his restaurant, Mica, eighth on their list of “The 10 Best New Restaurants in America” earlier this month.
Mica is a progressive American cuisine restaurant located in Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill neighborhood. It features an a-la-carte menu that incorporates local ingredients and is known for a multi-course chef’s tasting. Mica also serves brunch, taking a modern approach to American cuisine yet keeping it more classic compared to its dinner entrees.
“Roman reminded me of the young Parisian chefs cooking in stark surroundings, thinking about nothing but their stoves. Maybe he’s better than they are, considering the lusciousness of his Manjari-chocolate dessert,” GQ food critic Alan Richman wrote in his review.
In an interview with the Drexel Alumni Association, Roman said he always loved culinary arts, and his passion continued to develop as he grew.
“My earliest memories were always in a kitchen,” he said.
Chef Jason Cichonski helped Roman open Mica, and in November 2011 they partnered up again to open Ela in Queen Village with Cichonski acting as executive chef. Ela is an all-American bar and restaurant that combines innovative dishes with an extensive list of wines and craft beer.
Roman was working at Philadelphia French restaurant Le Bec-Fin when the restaurant offered him a scholarship to attend Drexel University. He studied in the kitchens of some of Philadelphia’s best-known chefs, including Marc Vetri, Georges Perrier and Daniel Stern.
Once he graduated from Drexel with a business degree, Roman returned to Le Bec-Fin, working his way up to sous chef and saucier, spending a total of five years there. During his time at the restaurant, Roman was chosen to enter the “2004 Young Chef Rotisseur Competition,” in which he won the Mid-Atlantic contest and placed second nationally.
In 2004 Roman started his own catering company, Charles Roman Catering, which has cooked for private parties as well as some of the area’s biggest institutions and dignitaries, including the University of Pennsylvania, Abington Friends School and Pepper Hamilton LLP.
Roman opened his first restaurant, Blackfish, in 2006. The seafood-centric establishment is located in Conshohocken and features progressive American cuisine with French influences.
Roman has claimed he always had an obsession with seafood. He explained to Food & Wine magazine why he began to cook, saying, “When I was young, I used to fish, and I wanted to know how to cook what I caught.”
Philadelphia Magazine ranked Blackfish first out of the area’s 50 best restaurants in 2011.
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BOOZE & GLORY
12" SHAPED PICTURE DISC!
The latest and greatest, from this raucous British powerhouse…
*NOTE* EUROPEAN CUSTOMERS MUST ORDER FROM CONTRA RECORDS. THIS IS A PRE-ORDER AND WILL SHIP THE WEEK OF MAY 27th.
"LINHA DE FRENTE” (FRONTLINE)
CONTAINS TWO ENGLISH TRACKS!
“Linha de Frente” (Frontline) is the latest release by the veteran Brazilian streetpunk outfit BLIND PIGS. This six song 10” EP includes four new songs in their native tongue (Portuguese), one in English, and a fantastic re-writing of a 1950s rockabilly classic, originally done by Don Gibson.
Two weeks after the recordings were completed, the band's guitar player, Fabiano, died of a heart attack. The band decided to honor him by using his leather jacket for the artwork, and dedicating the album to his memory.
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LENNY LASHLEY'S GANG OF ONE
12" SHAPED PICTURE DISC!
Repackaging these two popular (video) tracks off “Illuminator”, the debut full-length by LENNY LASHLEY’S GANG OF ONE, Pirates Press Records stays true to their favorite goal - creating AMAZING merch items, and collectables.
Made as both a shaped picture disc 'postage stamp', and a clear vinyl 12” with that same diecut 'postage stamp' shape pressed into the middle - both versions of this gem are going to turn heads on the ol’ merch table, and make some diehard fans VERY happy.
A limited number of each version will be available through Rev Distro and Pirates Press Records’ mailorder, so get your hands on a copy quick, before they’re gone!
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FISH & CHIPS
OUT NOW ON 10" VINYL!
Ten years in, the relentless Harrington Saints are still hammering away, trekking the globe spreading their working class message, showing people a level of energy that truly takes people by surprise - picking up more and more loyal diehards all along the way. Following a slew of amazing reviews toting their latest 7” single “Upright Citizen” (2014), these tracks are bound to re-emphasize again how truly important this band is.
Like their most recent LP, “Pride & Tradition” (2012), this EP was also engineered by Grammy winning producer/engineer, Michael Rosen. Their partnership with Rosen, as well as their long-time friendship and partnerships with Pirates Press Records, Longshot Music and Randale Records are testaments to the integrity and importance of this band, and the impact that they continue to make.
Just in time for their fourth European Tour (October), here are ten inches celebrating ten years of Harrington Saints. Ironically, their tenth record as well. Pick one up now, so you can scream along when they come to town!
OUT ON 12", CD & DOWNLOAD!
For so many, for so long, Darkbuster (pronounced DAAK-BUST-AH in the proper Boston accent) was a staple in the punk rock landscape - worldwide. For Boston punks and skins, they were, and remain, essential. While this record may have taken eight years to complete, it is truly a testament to how important this band is.
This is a record that can be loved and appreciated equally by a fourty-something who knows every single classic Darkbuster tune and has seen them a hundred times, or a fresh-cut teenager who hears them for the first time.
As 2012’s “Illuminator” (the debut album by Lenny Lashley’s Gang Of One) continues to gain the highest of praise, Lenny really shows here that he’s at the top of his game. It is for that reason that so many other amazing musicians have supported him, and this project in particular, to help make it a truly standout record. The musicianship and songwriting on this album really speak for itself. Give it a spin, and you’ll be singing along in no time…
Oi! THIS IS STREETPUNK VOL. 5!
FEATURING 15 OF THE BEST STREETPUNK BANDS OUT NOW!
Putting the first one of these compilations together five years ago, who would've known that they would be received so well, allowing us to continue putting these out year after year; strong lineup after strong lineup, with virtually no repeats. Volume five is no exception!
You can stream Oi! This Is Streetpunk Vol. 5 HERE.
This 12" record comes with a 3" woven patch, making it a total 15" - the real deal, staying true with the gimmick of the previous editions. Like its predecessors (having been released on 11/11/11, 12/12/12, 3/13/13, 4/14/14), this one was released on 5/15/15.
If you're not familiar, and you want to get a feel for what's in store, you can stream the first four "Oi! This is Streetpunk!" compilations here:
Oi! THIS IS STREETPUNK, Volume ONE - OUT 11/11/11 (11") piratespressrecords.com/Oi!
Oi! THIS IS STREETPUNK, Volume TWO - OUT 12/12/12 (12") piratespressrecords.com/Oi!2
Oi! THIS IS STREETPUNK, Volume THREE - OUT 3/13/13 (12" + 1" Button) piratespressrecords.com/Oi!3
Oi! THIS IS STREETPUNK, Volume FOUR - OUT 4/14/14 (12" + 2" Badge) piratespressrecords.com/Oi!4
Whether you wanna call it Oi!, or streetpunk, or something else, it's those fast-paced, upbeat, witty, clever and inspiring tunes that have us all lacing up those boots and putting up those mohawks. Here are fifteen more bands that share that love, and fifteen more great tracks to help you DJ that next punk rock drink-a-thon!
Oi!... THIS is STREETPUNK.
Volume five includes contributions from RAZORCUT // BLACK BALL // GRADE 2 // REDUCERS SF // BATS OUT // WORKIN' STIFFS // BRICK ASSASSIN // PLAN OF ATTACK // DARKBUSTER // ROADSIDE BOMBS // GENERATORS // RILE 9 COLLECTIVE // VICTORY // ANTAGONIZERS ATL // THE STRUGGLE | <urn:uuid:4d0d1395-7484-46fc-a47b-a27c94c2b9fd> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.piratespressrecords.com/ | 2016-05-05T02:50:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860125857.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161525-00151-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913363 | 1,473 |
t can happen to anyone. You forget to set the alarm, you sleep in, you miss an important flight.
But when you’re a migratory bird, missing your southbound flight in the fall could have disastrous consequences.
So when Doug and Yasmine Hannah found a mature sandhill crane wandering in the woods near their farm home outside Faro last fall, they knew it was in trouble.
For one thing, the huge flocks of cranes that overfly Faro twice a year had already left for their winter homes.
For another, cranes aren’t supposed to be in the woods. They prefer more open spaces.
The Hannahs took the bird to the recently-opened Research and Rehabilitation Centre at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve (YWP).
“He didn’t have a fracture, he didn’t have any obvious injuries. His wings were completely proportional, he was holding them right,” the preserve’s veterinarian, Maria Hallock recalls.
“He wasn’t limping, nothing was wrong with his head. Everything was fine, he was just really thin.”
Hallock suspects a soft tissue injury may have caused the metre-tall bird to stay behind when its flock mates left.
“So I was suspecting he had a muscle injury or a tendon injury that could keep him from flying. Because it would hurt, so after awhile he couldn’t fly to find food, he lost weight and he was getting weaker.”
Now, after a winter in a 2,800 cubic-foot enclosure at the rehab centre, the crane is ready to try his wings in the wild again.
Appropriately, he will be released this weekend at the 9th annual Crane and Sheep Viewing Festival in Faro.
Hallock is confident the bird—unofficially an “it”, since there is no way to determine its sex, apart from an invasive endoscopic examination, or DNA analysis of a feather—will make the transition successfully.
When it first arrived at the centre, the bird was so thin Hallock could feel its breast bone. That’s no longer the case, thanks to an unexpected diet the bird selected for itself while in residency at the centre.
“They’re supposed to be grain eaters. They eat grain, they eat insects, they eat small mammals, they eat amphibians, whatever they can catch,” Hallock says.
Rehab centre staff tried to interest the bird in a variety of edibles, without success. It turned out to be a very picky eater.
“We have tried everything. We got different types of grain. We got special giant mealworms, he would not touch them. Pieces of meat, pieces of chicken, pieces of mice, whatever we offered, he would not touch anything but fish,” she says.
“So, if that’s what he wants, that’s what we give him, and he’s doing fine.”
Doing fine, and apparently ready to take to the skies.
When it first arrived at the centre, the crane could do little more than walk around, flapping its wings and hopping.
Just after Christmas, Hallock says, it began making short forays a few feet above the floor of its enclosure.
“But lately, in the last couple of months, he’s been doing circles around the room. He does a couple of circles, lands and then goes again.”
The bird’s altitude has also increased.
“There is a light cover on the ceiling, and even though the ceiling is very high, he flies right up there, and once in awhile he hits that and knocks the cover off. So he can fly, no problem.”
But will the bird know enough to flock with others of its feather when it is released this weekend?
Apparently, thanks to two large mirrors in the enclosure, the bird already thinks it is in the company of other cranes.
“He can see himself, and he doesn’t know that it’s him. He thinks there’s another crane there. That’s his favourite area,” Hallock says.
Besides, she says, the instinct to be part of a flock is so strong it would never forget.
“He doesn’t have to be with them to know where he belongs, so I don’t expect any problem with that at all.”
Faro was picked as the release site because of the thousands of sandhill cranes that fly past on their northerly migration.
“There’s lots of flocks going through there at this time of the year, so he would have a choice. If he didn’t want to go with one, he could always go with another one.”
The Crane and Sheep Viewing Festival starts Friday evening with a dinner and musical entertainment, followed by a film
On Saturday, there will be a variety of nature walks and tours to the best sites for viewing both the migrating sandhill cranes and the area’s indigenous fannin sheep.
There will also be a free wild game barbecue, and a keynote talk by Yukon bird expert Dave Mossop, who recently returned from northern field work in the northern territory.
The event winds up Sunday afternoon with a bird-viewing walk to the sewage lagoon, followed by a Mother’s Day walk for breast cancer awareness.
“It’s a wonderful weekend,” says Erica Ward, executive assistant for the Town of Faro.
“It’s great because there’s really a sense of community involved.”
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Damn recession! I should've been a firefighter years ago, wouldn't have to worry about job security. Oh well lol. Funny thing was, when I was getting canned in the boss' office, the IT guys were quickly taking my mac pro away. When I returned to my desk, it was gone. They were like ninjas! Left me with nothing to bring back home to use in my portfolio. I'm just glad I'm still shooting children's portraits and weddings on the side. Because that cobra insurance hurts like a mother' for family coverage. | <urn:uuid:fd02290a-94e8-4b0d-bb3d-3355eb93a3f4> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/got-laid-off-bah.647659/ | 2017-07-27T19:58:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549429417.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20170727182552-20170727202552-00552.warc.gz | en | 0.988856 | 113 |
Check out the wonderful events going on at Copper Mountain Resort
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November 08, 2014
Come cheer on the U.S. Ski Team and kick-off the 2014/15 ski season with the largest pep rally on snow. We’ll be celebrating our athlete’s victories in Sochi and wishing lots of success to the U.S. Ski Team at the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.
November 29, 2014
What better way to work off that third (maybe even fourth) helping of Thanksgiving turkey than jibbing Woodward at Copper’s progressive rails during our annual Yam Jam and then bouncing/skating to your heart's content at a FREE barn session – it's time to REMIX." | <urn:uuid:0ad2acb1-fe94-402f-8e63-4eda6ac8449e> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://www.coppercolorado.com/ros/Calendar.index.html/index.html?page_number=2 | 2014-09-23T02:16:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657137906.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011217-00209-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.849318 | 151 |
FOUNDER OF MANHOOD.TV
SENSE OF BELONGING Issue #10
With all your experience how did that get you to popular men publications like GQ, Complex and even Men’s Health? How did that change the way you think about men’s grooming?
Well most publications were always coming to me for grooming pieces, bits of advice on grooming and then some. Now days I get calls to teach the concept of making a steak on a grill. Being in and working with the magazines has not changed my outlook on grooming in anyway; in fact it’s made me want to make the information better. Because I feel the magazines are missing the boat.
What made you take your career a step further and create the first Baber-spa and grooming lounge?
Well the name Grooming Lounge now has become like Xerox or Kleenex anyone who opens a barbershop with spa services or some special tweak uses the name Grooming Lounge. Shame on us for not spending enough on the trademark, I actually came up with the name on the back of a napkin. Having said that, when I first started, I knew I didn’t want to hire the typical hairstylist and barbers, so I set out created my own educational system, brought in barbers and hairstylist out of school, trained from scratch (three months before the first location ever opened. I had already created the website (which is still going strong without my involvement) my goal had always been to create a catalog for men, like Bliss, I did that as well as create the first product ever created on the barber shop floor. How else can I explain this, the Grooming Lounge was 12 years of my life and then knowing that I wanted to take to a different level, I got myself pushed out of the concept I created (which is a sad but inspiring story) and I rebooted to Manhood Tv.
VIDEOGRAPHER / DIRECTOR
OUT OF THIS WORLD Issue #8
Helvetica Light is an easy to read font, with tall and narrow letters, that works well on almost every site.
MODEL / ACTIVIST
SENSE OF BELONGING Issue #9
Slowly but surely androgynous modeling/fashion is becoming bigger and bigger each year. There are a lot of young people who fit this “genre” who are afraid to peruse modeling because they don’t fit the normal “fashion standards”. What would you say to this young person?
No matter what your pursuit is, you have to get rid of the fear. You should never fear trying anything. You have the right to go for what you truly want out of life. Don't let your fear stop you. The world is changing, and it orders for the positive change that is taking place to continue, we are going to need fiercely fearless people who don't care about the odds... who don't care about the fear.
You have the cool quote, “express and excel.” that you say. Explain to us what does that mean to you and why did that stick to you.
Express yourself freely and you will naturally excel in life! You have to embrace who you are whole-heartedly and be that. Be your own very special creation and true success will come eventually. I came to this realization after going through top model and my hashtag, #ExpressandExcel is a quick and easy reminder to always be true to yourself!!!
VIDEOGRAPHER / DIRECTOR
OUT OF THIS WORLD Issue #8
Your only 20 and you have put more work into your craft and exceed so much then I have seen in a 30 year old! Where does all this drive come from?
I really appreciate the compliment and my drive comes from me. I want a better life for my loved ones, and myself but overall I want to be FREE. Free to create anything I imagine without any restrictions. So,I continue to make due with whatever I have and make the best of it until I am blessed with more to work with.
Can I say your special affects are so dead on and crisp! What inspire you to take your videography to the next level?
Once again, I appreciate the compliment, and in my eyes my effects aren't good enough until I can create something similar to the Transformers sequel. When I create an effect, I try very hard to make it as realistic as possible. I feel like my effects get the point across but it’s still room for improvement. I want my effects to literally be ‘Out of This World.
OUT OF THIS WORLD Issue #7
Project Runway! Yes, I ‘am a fan of that show. Tell us your experience on the show?
Project Runway was such a great experience. I was a fan of the show, so getting on the show and only having to audition once was a blessing and an honor.
What was it like being taped for a couple of months for the show? Did it take a while to adjust?
Yes it took some time getting used to having to be mic’d before speaking and having a camera in your face 24/7. Gave a whole new respect for being a Kardashians lol
How did the world take you as a brand and designer?
Since first starting, which isn’t that long ago, it has been all love, especially after being on the show.
What are 3 top things you would say that set your designs and artistry apart from the rest?
It is not so much three words but the work and the passion that I put in is very evident. Also that every collection that I create has strong ties to the person I was, am and will be. And this September everyone will be reminded of that.
FASHION // BEAUTY PHOTOGRAPHER
CHAMPION Issue #6
To be a fashion photographer it seems that you need to have other talents to become great. Was this true when you went to school for graphic design? Why didn’t you take fashion design or marketing instead?
Another good question, I pretty much sacrificed my youth and enslaved my self to this industry.
I worked extremely hard and never slept, partied or went out. What agencies look for in photographers is quality and deliverance. But every agency is different and has different ways they like to represent their models. So your shooting style might not be for every agency and for the really big agencies like IMG and DNA it's all about who you know and who you have worked for. Credibility, quality, and reputation is what will get you through the doors.
I know fashion agencies can be a tricky business to please and get into and maintain a great relationship with them. What are some hidden secrets that agencies look for to become their favorite? What were some key advice that you were given in the past?
This question is funny. Becoming an agency’s favorite photographer is a lot of work and no play or pay. I build my relationships more with the models then the bookers because the bookers aren't doing anything for me but that model might be able to get you into a show or magazine down the road. Agencies have hundreds of photographers they work with. You are nothing but a number to them. The best way to leave your mark is shoot a few of their models, kill it, and then never hit them up again. It worked for me with Major models, and I still get model packages when they got new models flying into town. | <urn:uuid:68efdb55-9290-4a5c-a2c8-6f2c0636fe5a> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://secdummagazine.wixsite.com/dannydesigns/visionaries | 2020-11-30T19:25:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141486017.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20201130192020-20201130222020-00566.warc.gz | en | 0.972801 | 1,563 |
Summer is starting to look more than a little crisp around the edges, and yet the markets are still coming up with lettuces as green and fresh as a spring shower. Yesterday, there was a barrow load of them, huge curly leaved Webb's Wonderful, long, slender Cos, dark and freckly Arrowhead and Buttercrunch as round as a football, with tight hearts and a few informal outer leaves. The hearts made a salad as cool and crisp as the sheets of an Italian hotel; the trembling outer leaves added a softer note to a more English-style salad bound with a creamy dressing and fried snippets of bread for a bit of crunch.
There is no lettuce in my garden. The idea of popping out to pick a few leaves for the day's salad appeals enormously, but I have better things to do than stand guard day and night fending off the marching army of snails that can smell an emerging lettuce leaf from a hundred paces. I tried once (with the pink-tinged Quatre Saisons and the claret-leafed Rouge d'Hiver) and gave up, not for want of patience but out of sheer heartbreak at seeing the sweet, perky leaves meet such a cruel fate.
It just isn't summer without a lettuce in the fridge, which in my case means in a clear plastic bag (one you seal by pressing the edges together), sprayed regularly with cold water. I keep a spray bottle in the door of the fridge, and find it keeps the lettuces in better condition (I do the same with watercress).
Once home with my bag of Webb's I have an irresistible temptation to make a lettuce and cucumber sandwich. But the bread must be absolutely right otherwise it just isn't worth the trouble. By 'right' I mean the softest, freshest white loaf imaginable.
Once that is out of the way, I'm up for lettuce salads sharpened with bacon, with dressings of cream, oil and vinegar - or simply lemon juice and basil. Lettuce is the base for all the big leafy salads that turn up on the table at least once a day. It has a solid, grounding effect on all the hot, bitter, sharp or generally wacky leaves that I am tempted by but are too much by themselves.
From time to time salad leaves end up in the pot. A soup, lifted from too much gentility by fresh mint and some green peas; a calm plate of braised lettuce with bacon and a thin stock to accompany a piece of salmon. The peas are finishing, and any dish with lettuce is a good place for them. Peas and lettuce is a marriage made in heaven - raw, in soups, as a vegetable or, if you can keep the peas from falling out, in a sandwich.
Bacon, lettuce and pea salad
By all means cook the peas if you wish to. Serves 4
8 rashers of smoked streaky bacon
a little oil
50g white bread
a large, soft-leaved lettuce
a small bulb of fennel
shavings of Pecorino
180g fresh, podded peas
for the dressing:
1 tsp Dijon mustard
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
3 tbsp olive oil
Trim the bacon and discard the rind. Cut into short lengths and cook with a little oil in a non-stick pan till crisp; drain on kitchen paper. Cut the bread into small cubes, discarding the crusts. Fry in the pan in which you cooked the bacon, adding more oil as necessary. As soon as they are golden, drain on kitchen paper and salt lightly.
Wash the lettuce, tear the leaves into manageable pieces and put them in a serving bowl. Finely shred the fennel, and toss it into the lettuce leaves with the peas.
Mix the dressing ingredients together in a small bowl and add a grinding of salt and pepper. Add the bacon to the salad, gently toss with the dressing, then add the Pecorino shavings and croutons and serve at once.
Lettuce, pea and mint soup
A good soup for a summer's day. Serves 4
a large, round lettuce about 400g
a thick slice of butter
500g shelled peas
stock - chicken, vegetable or water
3 bushy sprigs mint
Separate the lettuce leaves and stalks, and wash thoroughly. Even the smallest amount of grit will ruin the soup. Melt the butter in a deep saucepan over a low to moderate heat. Peel the shallots and slice them thinly then let them soften in the butter. When they are tender but have yet to colour, chop the lettuce up a bit and stir it into the butter. As soon as it has wilted, add the peas, stock and mint leaves and bring to the boil. Turn the heat down, season with salt and black pepper, and leave to simmer for no longer than 7 to 10 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and blend the soup till smooth in a liquidiser. Check seasoning and serve hot.
Wonderful with salmon. Serves 2
2 medium-sized lettuces
a thick slice of butter
75g diced, unsmoked bacon
2 small, young leeks
250g shelled peas
250ml vegetable stock
Discard any tatty leaves, then cut each lettuce into quarters. Wash under cold water to remove any trapped grit or aphids.
Melt the butter in a heavy-based pan with a lid. Add the diced bacon and leave it to stew in the butter for 5 minutes or so over a moderate heat. Meanwhile trim, wash and cut the leeks into short pieces, add them to the pan and continue cooking, stirring now and again till they have started to soften.
Tip in the peas, lettuce, stock, some salt and pepper, and bring to the boil. Turn it down as soon as it starts to bubble, cover with a lid, and simmer for 20 minutes, by which time the liquor will have almost vanished.
Lift out the lettuce, peas and bacon and place on a serving dish. If there is more than a ladleful of liquid in the pan, turn up the heat and boil furiously to reduce it a little, check the seasoning, then pour over the lettuce.
A creamy dressing for a lettuce salad
I can't tell you how good this dressing is for lettuce that is to accompany ham. Enough to dress a salad for 4
2 tsp Dijon mustard
2 tsp tarragon vinegar
3-4 tbsp mild olive oil
2-3 tbsp double or whipping cream
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The city of Birmingham (AL) has approved funding for the $5 million Negro League baseball museum that is set to open in April, and on Thursday, Inland American Communities and Corporate Realty made the multifamily development, Venue at the Ballpark, official with a ceremonial groundbreaking. Read more and view renderings here.
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It’s no “virtual” award here. Joe Mock from BaseballParks.com was at Regions Field Saturday to present the 2013 Baseballparks.com Ballpark Of The Year award to the Double-A Birmingham Barons (Southern League) and the city of Birmingham (AL) for their impressive one-year-old, 8,500-seat baseball stadium. Read more here.
PRESS RELEASE – Interest has been incredibly high in the ballpark that opened in Birmingham, Alabama in April. Locals have been keenly interested in all aspects of the new park, so much so that the server that hosts BaseballParks.com crashed when so many Alabamans flocked to read the site’s in-depth ballpark review the day it was posted. Continue reading
Eric and Wendy Pastore from DigitalBallparks.com recently visited Regions Field, the new home of the Double-A Birmingham Barons (Southern League). Read more and view photos here.
The Double-A Birmingham Barons (Southern League) recently hosted a delegation from Huntsville (AL) led by Mayor Tommy Battle to give them a tasty look at the new Regions Field. The mayor is exploring the possibility of a downtown replacement for outdated Joe Davis Stadium, home of the Double-A Huntsville Stars (Southern League). Read more here and here.
The Double-A Birmingham Barons (Southern League) will unveil their new Outfield Entertainment Area at Regions Field Tuesday night. Read more here. The team will then take a break from the confines of their fancy new ballpark to play in the 18th annual Rickwood Classic at Rickwood Field on Wednesday afternoon. Read more here. | <urn:uuid:5b60ad91-c69e-4533-9df7-a437cb457f59> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | https://ballparkbiz.wordpress.com/tag/regions-field/ | 2015-07-04T04:59:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375096504.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031816-00103-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932186 | 415 |
Jennica Lynn – A Date With Jennica
Released: February 14, 2014
PornStars: Jennica Lynn
Categories: Big Ass, Brunette, Busty, Clips, Fetish, HD, Reality, Solo
Jennica Lynn gets your text message on her phone. Date? That excites her. But first she has to prepare herself. Girls like to look their best when they leave the house, for both themselves and their dates. And what if some TSG photographer is hanging around looking to snap some shots of her too? But first, Jennica wants to roll around in bed completely naked before she goes into the shower. Nothing says Jennica Lynn 34M cups than the mind-blowing over-head close-ups of this Swedish super-girl and her twins. The way they jiggle and quiver is beyond belief yet you must believe. Reality does not lie. “Look at these!” Jennica giggles, moving her chest from side-to-side, her super-huge boobs following suit in a demonstration of the wave theory you didn’t see in high school. It’s a pleasure to see a girl so enamored of her own boobs. Jennica showers breastfully clean, brushes her teeth (dripping toothpaste on her boobs–very nice), puts on some make-up and brushes her hair. But before she gets dressed, Jennica has an orgasm, letting her fingers do the trick. And now that she’s cum, Jennica chooses a bra, shoes and a dress to put on and leaves for your date. The wind’s been howling outside the whole time and so will you. | <urn:uuid:d8972a3b-1093-4780-95f8-d62ac8c9cec7> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://streamxxx.tv/xl-girls-jennica-lynn-2014/ | 2016-12-06T02:50:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698541876.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170901-00312-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949295 | 347 |
Hi, skiing enthusiasts, this time we bring you an interesting and cool skiing game! You need to act as a skiing player and conquer many snow mountains. Go around gates to complete the track and try to improve your best time on each track! How many levels you can pass? Have a try!
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Hooray it’s Friday and our first news roundup in August! As you prepare your kids for back to school, take a second from your shopping and busy schedules to read the trending dental news for this week. First up, we have a dental lab’s complete guide to better communication. Our second article, from The Economist, gives an in-depth analysis on how the abrasives in toothpaste are affecting our environment. Our final article takes a look at how you can celebrate your patients’ milestones in life. Don’t forget to let us know what you think!
The Dental Lab’s Complete Guide to Better Lab-Dentist Communication
Dentistry IQ takes the time to outline exactly what dental lab owners need to do to nurture better relationships with their dentists. According to the article, there are three types of dentists labs deal with including new, current and distanced and each type of dentist requires a different communicative approach. Take a look at these approaches and see which one best describes your relationships.
Abrasives, the plastic beads found in toothpaste and face scrubs, are poisoning the fish in our country’s rivers and lakes. New York alone rinses 19 tons of microbeads down its drains each year. The microbeads are too small to be caught by municipal water filters, which allows them to easily flow into the world’s oceans, rivers and lakes. In water, the beads can break down, causing them to release toxins or become coated with other poisons such as PCBs.
Celebrations and Trust
Take a look at real-life examples of how you can make your patients feel like a part of the family outside of the annual birthday card. Dr. Larry Stanleigh walks through the various ways he and his practice have made an effort to their patients feel like family by recognizing, milestone anniversaries, weddings, births and so much more through handwritten notes and flower arrangements.
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Network Magic 3.0
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Price: $29.99 per year (or $3.99 per month)
Pros: Makes it easy to view and manage all devices on the network; simplifies resource sharing and the configuration of some router features.
Cons: No WEP or WPA setup, subscription fees instead of outright purchase, no Mac or Linux support.
It was physicist and author Arthur C. Clarke who once wrote, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." This may help explain the design rationale behind Network Magic from Network Magic (formerly Pure Networks), a utility that aims to help users monitor, manage and get the most out of their home networks. The prior version of Network Magic was useful, but this latest iteration adds a couple of worthwhile features to the mix.
Network Magic has three main facets -- to provide information about the network and help facilitate mundane tasks like the sharing of folders or printers, to act as an easy-to-use interface for your router's security-related features, and to provide access to the network when you're away from home. The latter two require that you use a router specifically supported by Network Magic. The list of supported devices was a bit thin in the past, limited mainly to a handful of the most popular (read: inexpensive and vanilla) models. Fortunately, the list has grown much more extensive and includes many advanced routers like MIMO devices from D-Link and Netgear, so chances are good that you'll find yours on the list.
Getting Network Magic up and running on a PC isn't difficult and doesn't take very long. (You can install the software on up to three systems with the standard license.) As we proceeded through the installation wizard, the software deftly detected the presence of Symantec's Norton Internet Security software and proceeded to outline a series of simple configuration steps to ensure the firewall wouldn't inhibit Network Magic's function or prevent file and printer sharing over the network. Network Magic also successfully identified my (relatively) high-end Netgear RangeMax WPN824 wireless router and prompted for the unit's username and password so it could interact directly with the device.
Network Magic uses a tabbed interface that's well designed and easy to use. You can share system resources like folders and printers directly from within it, and it provides sharing wizards that are much more streamlined than the ones that come with Windows. Through the Network Map, you can check the status of your Internet connection as well as see a graphical representation of all the devices detected on the network. Network Magic successfully detected the presence of and identified a variety of devices on my network including multiple computers, a TiVo DVR, an Xbox 360 game console, and a wireless print server. (In cases where Network Magic can't ID the device, you can specify your own label and icon.)
Clicking on a particular device lets you view its IP configuration data, and right-clicking calls up a context menu of tasks and information appropriate to the specific device. For example, you may be able to log into the device (i.e. a router), or check the queue of a shared printer. In the case of another computer running Network Magic, you can view more detailed hardware and software info like the amount of memory, type of CPU, or Windows OS version. More importantly, you can share a folder or printer from a remote system and verify whether a firewall is turned on and if things like security patches and anti-virus definitions are up to date.
Network Magic maintains an alert log to notify you of any important network events, such as when a system running the software is not configured to automatically download new Windows vulnerability patches. There's also a separate log to track more mundane activity like when devices join or leave the network.
A major concern of many home network users -- particularly those with wireless networks -- is to keep unauthorized users away. Like its predecessor, Network Magic will let you know when a device joins the network and let you track it as an intruder, but version 3.0's new Wireless Protection Center actually lets you do something to send interlopers packing. It helps you configure your router's security features, specifically SSID broadcast and MAC filtering. It only works with select routers, and I did need to make sure I was running a particular version of the router firmware before this feature would work -- Network Magic includes firmware versions in its compatibility list.
It doesn't set up Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) or wired equivalent privacy (WEP) encryption keys on your router, nor on your client systems. You'll have to do that on your own. Network Magic does give you some generic instructions, but that's it. Hopefully, future versions will give you assistance here, much like the one-button encryption setup found on many routers today.
The features the software does help with can, of course, be accessed by logging into the router directly, but doing it through Network Magic is easier for those who don't care to wade through the morass of Web-based administration pages. This access can be had from any copy of Network Magic that's been configured to access the router, which makes it possible that others in your household could accidentally or intentionally modify security settings. The company says it is planning to rectify this issue in a future update.
With Network Magic's Net2Go feature, you can access your home network from any browser when you're on the road. Setting up Net2Go is easy, since basically all you need to do is create a unique Web address (you access your network by going to yourname.net2go.com) and select a password. Network Magic displays guidelines for good password creation (i.e eight characters, mixed case, include numbers) and helpfully ticks them off as you create a password that meets the criteria.
Once Net2Go is configured, you can access the data on any system running Network Magic by pointing a browser to your customized Web address. The password is used to protect access to those folders you deem private, but you can also set up public folders that anyone can get to. (Whenever you share a folder in Network Magic, you're given the option of sharing it via Net2Go as well.) The new iteration of Net2Go adds a few new capabilities, like the ability to publish your Net2Go page via RSS and view images from a USB-based Webcam. Net2Go's remote camera support is sparse, though, and many supported cameras don't allow you to view streaming video -- only still images that you have to manually refresh.
A feature that's still missing is the ability to log into Net2Go via a secure SSL page, which makes it technically possible (though unlikely) that an eavesdropper could intercept a Net2Go password, since it's transmitted across the Internet without any encryption. (Though to be fair, implementing SSL login would likely be a significant performance drag on the system running Net2Go.)
You can download a fully-functional trial version of Network Magic that works with any version of Windows (Mac and Linux users are out of luck) and use it for 30 days. That's the good news -- the bad news is that Pure Networks follows the increasingly common trend of licensing software on a subscription basis rather than letting the user pay once and use it indefinitely.
Registering the downloaded software costs $29.99 annually to run it on three PCs. That's pretty reasonable, or you can choose a monthly rate of $3.99, which is a lot less of a bargain. Five- and eight-system licenses are available for $49.99 and $59.99 respectively, with a corresponding increase if you pay monthly. (If you'd prefer to have an actual CD and printed manual, you can pick up a three-PC retail copy for $39.99.) If you don't register the software or let a registration lapse, you lose many of Network Magic's features, including Net2Go, network alerts, and the file and printer sharing wizards (though you can still set up sharing directly through Windows).
Network Magic's name certainly seems hyperbolic when you consider that some of the software's features are already available within the Windows operating system or a broadband router. If there is magic involved, it's in how Network Magic manages to aggregate and simplify these networking features so that the average non-technical person can actually find and use them. I can't speak for Arthur C. Clarke, but in this regard, the software does a pretty good job. It needs to go just a little farther to be 100 percent worthwhile for wireless users.
[Editor's Note: After the release of Network Magic 3.0, the company discovered that the built in Wireless Network Manager feature, which replaces Windows Zero Config as a primary way to control your wireless connection, doesn't work with all the wireless cards out there. It sometimes causing a Blue Screen of Death. The company has pulled that feature and it will release it separately as a Beta from Network Magic Labs in the future. -- 5/3/06] | <urn:uuid:9b1ace91-e420-47ab-b527-e901a949fca0> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://www.internetnews.com/reviews/article.php/3600616/Network+Magic+30.htm | 2018-04-22T03:24:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945484.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20180422022057-20180422042057-00357.warc.gz | en | 0.938244 | 1,856 |
Videos tagged with "bands"
Wedding in Manta Ecuador...Lots of music...From Mariachis to live bands... Lots of fun! Lots of Dancing! Latina Style!
Ecuador - small country, rich culture. [08:54]
This Annual fiesta takes place in a city of Saquisilí and includes a coloreful parade, parformances of local bands, as well as bull fighting. Autentic costumes, typical food of Cotopaxi region of Ecuador and endles dancing on the town main scuare.
Tags: carnival, fiesta, tourism, Travel, Culture, Events, Ecuador, Destination, Saquisili, parade, costume, Cotopaxi, autentic, dancing, music, Adventure
Easter Sunday San Blas Parade 4 - Cuenca, Ecuador [01:28]
April 8, 2012 This is an Easter parade in the rain coming from San Blas church heading towards Parque Calderon and the Immaculate Conception cathedral, in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Tags: Ecuador dancers bands music
Roy Llera Photographers in Miami presents a Quito, Ecudador Wedding [04:00]
Miami Wedding Photographers for Diana and Nicholas Photographed by Stella Hernandez and Cristobal Herrera for Roy Llera Photographers in Miami. Although I feel so lucky to have been given the opportunity to photograph all my brides and grooms on their big day, I felt twice as fortunate to have had the opportunity to travel to Quito, Ecuador for Diana and Nick's fairy tale wedding! Cristobal and I spent a few days in Quito, taking in the beautiful landscapes, the genuinely nice people, and a very different culture, really getting into the mood of this unique wedding. What's unique about this experience was that we were able to be intimate with the families before the actual wedding, which we don't usually get to do until the wedding day. We spent days before even a day of travel afterwards with her family and so the wedding day itself felt like a family affair to even us! For both Diana and Nick, this was a very intimate affair and letting loose was the plan. The party was over the top and every detail was paid close attention to. The food was spectacular and the variety of bands she had playing her wedding never gave anyone a chance to sit! From top to bottom, this was one of those weddings I will never forget and one of the couples I hope to never lose touch with! In fact, we learned that they are expecting a baby and we hope to be a part of that new chapter in their lives. ~ Stella Hernandez
Tags: Miami Wedding, Miami Wedding Photography, Roy Llera Photographers, Quito Ecuador Wedding
A day in Girón (Cuenca, Ecuador) New Video! [03:21]
•ENGLISH Hello folks, Girón is a town located to the southeast of Cuenca City. You get there by traveling about 2 hours by car. In this video, you'll hear a traditional song played by a local band commonly known as "Banda de Pueblo". If you ever visit Ecuador, you'll find these types of bands mostly in the Andean part of my country. Also, in this video, you will see a well-known tourist attraction of Girón which is a small waterfall called "El Chorro". The afternoons in this site are little cold, and for that reason I would suggest you to take a cup of coffe and relax yourself while you start hearing some nocturnal insects. I would be delighted to guide you through this Andean spot, if you are interested, send me an e-mail for more information. email@example.com •ESPANOL Saludos a todos mis coterráneos e hispanohablantes alrededor del mundo. Este es un video que fue filmado en Girón de un paseo familiar. Aquí escucharas la típica música de pueblo y veras el conocido chorro de Girón. Ofrezco filmar tus eventos sociales en Cuenca y sus alrededores. Para más información aquí esta mi correo electrónico: firstname.lastname@example.org Edgar A. Puma Nexus Visual Works
Tags: giron, culture, tradition, cuenca, ecuador, people, music, tour guide, town, adventure, custom, tourism, nature, destination, fiesta, travel, events
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Interpretting the Cost numbers:
Ex. Fuel Cost: Per Hour: 68$ – – – Per Seat Mile: .07$ – – – Your Time Value: 32$ . . . Per Seat: 5.3$
Basic Assumptions– We assume 6 $ a gallon aviation 100 LL. 3$ a gallon automotive fuel, for the comparison.
Per Hour: Operating at the best performance criteria, (which usually results in higher fuel consumption than economy cruise) the total fuel cost per hour.
Per Seat Mile: Uses the performance true airspeed assuming zero wind situation and calculates based upon number of seats in the airplane, the Fuel Cost per seat mile. So you could take this number and multiply it by the number of miles of a particular trip times the seats in the airplane and come up with a good estimate for trip fuel cost.
Your time Value: One of the cooler numbers this number compares your aircraft fuel cost with a 4 door economy car fuel costs for the equivilent trip. It takes the amount of extra money you spend by flying and divides it by the hours your save by flying, to give you the amount your “saved” time is worth. Its the premium your willing to pay for your time when you choose to fly that airplane.
Per Seat: Is even cooler, it divides the time value by the number of seats and shows you what your “saved” time cost you per seat. So in this example if everybodys time is worth more than 5.30$ an hour, it might be a better deal to fly. | <urn:uuid:31f599d3-fe4e-46dd-ae81-0cd48bd5febd> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://www.aviatoranalysis.com/anaylsis-tools/cost-tools/ | 2021-01-16T05:20:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703500028.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20210116044418-20210116074418-00646.warc.gz | en | 0.896447 | 326 |
Christmas for Him...and him.
This one is for those of us feeling a tad bit stuck for ideas when it comes to gifting the boys in your life. I've put together a few quick and simple suggestions so that you can quickly knock off the christmas list and get back to planning that christmas day menu...and we didn't forget the little ones. Scroll down for details!
Faux leather Grooming kit from Evo Black leather loafers by Toms Christmas treats by Winnow Chocolates Limited edition Cointreau Flip comb, key ring and styling product kit by Uppercut Deluxe Fragrance by Hugo Boss | <urn:uuid:de8c7527-8e45-4a36-bb3f-ebfd7fbef2e5> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | https://www.projectsweetstuff.com/articles/christmas-for-him-and-him | 2018-04-22T18:09:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945637.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20180422174026-20180422194026-00250.warc.gz | en | 0.915792 | 129 |
When new internal and external hires are set up for success, it reduces the time to proficiency in the role. Beyond the paperwork, your onboarding strategy should include education and training for the job, as well as socialization activities so new employees quickly become part of the organizational culture. Learn the steps you can take to streamline your new hire processes, manage new employee data, and use onboarding to extend the candidate experience into the candidate experience.
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Create Great Employee Experiences from Hire to Retire
As the line between work life and personal life continues to blur, we must create an environment that not only attracts candidates, but positively engages with them at all stages of the employee lifecycle. Join us at the 2017 HCInnovation@Work Conference in Scottsdale, AZ on October 24-26 to begin creating great employee experiences from hire to retire!Learn More
Learn More about Onboarding with our Top Resources
Onboarding is both an art and a science. Poor onboarding contributes to a shockingly high attrition rate among recent hires. In this HCI infographic, learn more about onboarding challenges and their solutions, along with links to additional ...Read more
Discover why engaging, in-person, game-based onboarding solutions empower new employees and help jump-start their new roles. Additionally, learn how to make new hires feel oriented versus making them feel empowered and welcomed.
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A new employee’s first days on the job are crucial! They come into new hire orientation looking to affirm that they made the right decision joining the company. And whether their orientation experience is good or bad, that doesn’t stop them from moving on into their role – ready or not, here they come!
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You know that the time and resources your company sinks into training new hires each year is costing you, but have you ever really calculated how much? Almost all onboarding and training programs are focused solely on giving participants basic information about their job and the company, which in most cases amounts to only a small portion of the information new employees need to be effective. Obviously, employees that aren’t effective in their role are costing you money.
Learn strategies for crafting an excellent candidate experience and an outstanding onboarding experience that will keep your new hires engaged from the beginning of their career with you.
Onboarding programs enable new hires to quickly and easily become proficient in their roles by learning the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors needed to function in a given organization. For too long, onboarding has been an ignored or ...Read more
Create Engaging Employee Experiences from Hire to Retire
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OEM Honda Wheels
Wheels are the only part of your car that touches the road. Of course, you are going to want to make sure they're working at their best. As you view the online catalog, you'll see a range of wheel sizes from 15 inches to over 20 inches. There are many styles and package options available to choose from .
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It's important to purchase the correct wheel type and size for your specific model. If you accidentally order the wrong size, your rims might crack, increasing your risk of a collision. There are also other factors to consider before placing your order, such as alignment, handling, acceleration, and braking.
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Atlanta is one of the busiest cities in the world, which means uniforms are everywhere. Employees at the city’s finest restaurants and hotels wear them, as do athletes from the youth to professional levels. Atlanta is also major center for commercial activity, which means uniforms on everyone from delivery drivers to repairmen. The city is home to some of the finest public and private schools in the nation, which means there are plenty of school uniforms, as well.
Atlanta Uniform Cleaning
In order to keep the city looking its best, companies like Classic Touch Cleaners offer professional services that can help keep your uniforms bright and clean and help you maintain your reputation for looking professional and well-groomed.
If you do not know how to properly care for your uniform, you can end up shrinking it or damaging it. Stain removal, washing, drying, and wrinkle removal often require specific methods based on the style of the uniform, the elements it is exposed to, and the material it is made from.
Classic Touch Cleaners
Whether you need your individual uniform cleaned or you are a business owner who is responsible for caring for your entire staff’s work clothing, Classic Touch Cleaners can help. Conveniently located at 2625 Piedmont Road in Buckhead, the company has been serving Atlanta area professionals since 1989.
With over two and a half decades of experience caring for Atlanta’s uniforms, you can rest assured that Classic Touch knows how to remove any type of stain or odor. By the time you pick it up, your uniform will look as crisp and fresh as it did when you wore it for the first time.
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Sidney Rice Has Hip Surgery
I was a little concerned with Sidney Rice’s hip in July (click to read article). He went from the #5 rank in February to #7 in April as I came to the conclusion that the Vikings would run more in 2010.
In mid-July I bounced him down to #14 as the hip injury began to trouble me. In my most recent rankings two weeks ago, he dipped down to #19 as the hip and a possible contract dispute as the cause for the slide.
Now there are rumors (via Judd Zulgad’s Twitter) that he may undergo surgery to repair his hip. This procedure could cost him half the season. Until we hear otherwise, it’s time to start preparing for the worst. You can no longer risk taking Rice as one of your top two WRs. Even taking him as a WR3 is risky.
Meanwhile, Bernard Berrian should start rapidly climbing the draft board. With Rice’s hip issue and Percy Harvin’s migraine issues, Berrian could easily find himself as the team’s number one receiver. Brett Favre went to Berrian early and often in the NFC title game against the Saints. He would not hesitate to go back to him.
The Vikings are taking a look at Javon Walker, but don’t waste your time with him. Greg Lewis, who was on the receiving end of the ESPY Play of the Year, is far more likely to pick up the scraps should Rice and Harvin miss time.
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The vocal star of Cats, Phantom of the Opera and Requiem may be the former Mrs. Andrew Lloyd-Weber but this Symphony proves that Sarah Brightman will never leave epic melodrama too far behind. Brightman continues to satisfy both critics and her public by working through the crossroads of classic popular music, popular classical music, theatrical showtunes andon this album, recorded across three different countries with her longtime producer Frank Petersonevocative orchestral goth. "Over the past four years of recording this album, I find myself approaching my music even more visually than I ever have before," Brightman says. "I found that the canvas was endless for this album."
The first note you hear Brightmanin "Fleurs du Mal," after the "Gothica" orchestral preludeshe unleashes from on high an almost impossible note, a purely musical sound that seems more godly than human. There's little need for the choir's chorus because a voice this powerful needs no such backup. The title track makes this same point: One of this set's least overwrought and complicated arrangements gives her voice room to breathe into the lyrics gorgeous life (Her previous relationship with AL-W makes this chorus particularly poignant: "Symphony/ It's gone quiet around us now/ How I wish you would hold me/ And that you'd never told me/ That it's better if you leave"). Similarly, her voice ethereally moves like a spirit over the quiet, still waters of "Sanvean."
Symphony also features several Brightman duets. She reprises "Canta Della Terra" with Andre Bocelli, one of the few singers whose voice she cannot overpower, and beautifully renders "Sarai Qui" with Italian tenor Alessandro Safina. "Pasión" with countertenor Fernando Lima aches with longing yet twirls dashing and romantic, like a Spanish dancer. On "I Will Be With You (Where the Lost Ones Go)," Brightman teams with Paul Stanley, who herewith takes a gigantic leap forward in his quest to transform from badass Kiss lead guitarist to Cher impersonator. Someoneeven if I'm not quite sure whomshould have known better than this.
Brightman concludes her Symphony with the three-part suite "Running," the International Association of Athletics Federation Green Project Charity song, which borrows its middle section from the straight-on 4/4 rock of Pink Floyd's "Run Like Hell" then bookends it with an orchestral melody and chorus.
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Treadmill marathons raise funds for charity
LAKEWOOD — Arlington and Lakewood high school teachers worked up a sweat to raise funds for some charitable causes.
At AHS, it was called the “Murrathon” in honor of coach Jon Murray, while at LHS, it was called the “Marathon Powered by Sowards,” in honor of coach Jeff Sowards, but in both cases, the two teachers ran the distance of a marathon on treadmills at their respective schools on the morning of June 3.
Although both Murray and Sowards are experienced runners, neither had ever gone as far as 26 miles in a single stretch — Murray had reached 22 miles previously, while Sowards had gotten as far as 20 miles — so they increased their regular regimen of running to make sure they could complete their goal.
Although Murray was joined by fellow AHS teachers Scott Moberly, Becca Harkavy, Sean Cunningham and Mike Liles on a second treadmill, Cunningham only ran half a marathon, while the other three teachers contributed one to three miles each. Murray completed his marathon in three hours and nine minutes, while Sowards, who had started slightly earlier, finished it in three hours and 29 minutes.
According to AHS ASB, Leadership and Link Crew Advisor Ben Ballew, Murray stopped only once to stretch his hamstrings, but then promptly resumed his pace.
“I paced myself at about eight minutes a mile,” said Sowards, who kept in contact with Murray via Skype during their run.
In both cases, their marathons were perfectly timed with their schools’ lunches.
“The entire school was in transition between classes and was able to watch [Murray’s] final steps,” Ballew said. “It was an epic climax. The sound was deafening, and it was probably the most united I have seen the school in my four years at AHS. It was absolutely incredible.”
While the students of LHS helped Sowards raise $1,500 for the Seattle Children’s Hospital, the students of AHS raised $4,000 for the Soles for Souls and Kids Kloset charities. Murray and fellow AHS science teacher Deanna Vaughan raised $1,500 prior to the Murrathon, which generated another $1,500 through the sales of Murrathon T-shirts, before the $1,000 in donations made on the day of the event.
“My colleagues covered all of my classes that morning for free, which is huge,” Sowards said. “We had great support from the ASB officers and other students. My extended family was there to give me support, which kept me going.”
Both teachers have already been asked if they plan on turning this joint treadmill marathon fundraiser into an annual event, and while they’re hesitant to set any plans in stone, they both expressed enthusiasm for the idea.
“That’s a definite possibility,” Murray said. “All our students, no matter their backgrounds, came together for a common cause. The energy leading into this event, and on the day of, are things that I will never forget.”
Murray and Sowards came up with the idea for this event during one of their runs together six weeks ago, and they praised not only their schools but their communities as a whole for taking their message of helping others to heart. The AHS ASB students designed a great deal of the ad campaign for the Murrathon and did research to select what they considered the most appropriate charities, while the LHS leadership class coordinated the details of the Marathon Powered by Sowards.
“I’d never done anything like this before, but I liked the idea of demonstrating our skills to inspire others to make a difference,” Sowards said.
“Coach Sowards and I wanted to show the kids that you can use your gifts to serve others,” Murray said. “Arlington is a very special community of loving and giving people, and that shows up in the attitudes of the kids and staff at Arlington High School.” | <urn:uuid:d89f8b3e-0406-480f-8935-66ec152ad84f> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.marysvilleglobe.com/community/123924284.html | 2015-01-28T22:19:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422122034298.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175354-00082-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980214 | 908 |
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Though the team has an abundance of issues to resolve—turnovers and a disheveled offensive attack in general—their defensive showing is what's most disconcerting.
Struggling or not, the Lakers are scoring. They're averaging more than 97 points per game and shooting a fifth-best 47 percent from the field.
Which means their Charlotte Bobcats-like start comes down to defense.
Currently, the boys in purple and gold are allowing opponents to score nearly 100 points per contest on 44.7 percent shooting from the floor, an unacceptable reality.
Naturally then, now is the time we call for Dwight Howard's head, right? He was brought to Los Angeles to ensure teams were held to well below 100 points per contest, correct?
To an extent, yes. But the Lakers' defensive shortcomings stretch well beyond Howard. In fact, he's been part of the solution thus far.
Los Angeles is currently allowing the 12th-most points per game in the league, but it's allowed just 42 of those points in the paint, on par with the 41.5 it relinquished last season. This puts the blame on the Lakers' outside defense—an aspect of the game Howard himself cannot be held responsible for.
Yes, as one of the most mobile big men in the NBA, Howard is no stranger to stepping out on the perimeter. But his job is to lock down the painted area and to protect the rim, and he has done no worse than the Lakers of last year.
Is there room for improvement? Of course. Bear in mind, however, that in the age of stretch forwards, Howard is left to man the post by himself, leaving him more susceptible to dribble penetration.
Let's also not neglect to mention that Iron Man is averaging 2.4 blocks per contest, a mark slightly above his career metric, putting him on pace to block more shots per game this season than in the last two.
So Howard isn't the problem. The Lakers wouldn't be outscoring opponents in the paint by an average of 5.6 points per contest if he was. That's despite the team starting the season off under .500, mind you. Even more importantly, though, that's in spite of the defensively-inept Antawn Jamison spending time manning the paint for the second unit.
Which means Howard is already providing solutions to some of his team's defensive deficiencies—the Lakers are just expecting him to solve too much.
Los Angeles' newest behemoth is doing his job. He's holding opponents to fewer points in the paint and he's protecting the rim at just as high a level as he has the rest of his career.
The Lakers' perimeter defenders, though? Well, the same cannot be said of them.
Opponents are outscoring Los Angeles on the perimeter by an average of seven points per game thus far, completely eclipsing the 5.6 advantage Howard has given them in the paint.
Now I beg you, how is that Howard's doing? He's not out there defending the likes of Chris Paul, Damian Lillard and even Randy Foye. He's the one who's holding star big men like Al Jefferson and LaMarcus Aldridge to under 50 percent shooting.
To ask Howard to step out onto the perimeter and do what Metta World Peace, Kobe Bryant and company are supposed to be doing is ridiculous. Los Angeles' defensive flaws on the outside are on them—not Howard. The current starting lineup is plus-31 with him on the floor. It doesn't get much better.
Which Laker must step up more defensively?
But it does get much worse.
Teams are shooting 35.6 percent from three-point range against the Lakers, a higher percentage than the 32.7 percent conversion rate the team allowed last year.
Again, that's not Howard. It can't be put on him.
Could he very well step out behind the rainbow and start blocking 25-foot jump shots?
Sure, but then the rim will be left unprotected and that will be his fault too.
Something else has to change. Not Howard. He's doing what he's supposed to do on the defensive side of the ball.
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Yes, there is now a game that you and your kids can sit around the computer screen and enjoy hours of family fun! Tea Party Zombies Must Die.
The cast of characters include:
Generic pissed off old white guy
White trash redneck
The new modern Klan member, who puts put outs racist trash over the internet
The executive who tricked the "God people" into believing in tax cuts for the rich
Britt Hume, Bill O'Reilly, and a really fat version of Glenn Beck.
We of course couldn't leave out Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin too. After all, they must be the first to go.
Last but not least are the Koch's and a list of employees that work for them. (Why would people want to work for the Koch's? They are evil aren't they?)
You can play game here, if you like. But, I think you should wait for your impressionable children to be in on it too. After all, where is the fun if you can pass on hostility, rage, and altogether bad behavior onto your children?
This just makes me want to run out and change my registration card to democratic, don't you?
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Sometimes, our celebs actually make bad fashion choices. Look at the list below
1. Denrele Edun
Denrele confuses me all the time with his dress sense, so it was a little difficult to pick one out of his numerous fashion fails, but this net-like golden eyesore still makes me cringe every single time I see it.
2. Susan Peters at AMVCA 2016
Susan Peters had this very interesting purple dress that was a little (not so little) too big to the 2016 AMVCAs.
I am not understanding. Perhaps she lost some weight just before the awards and couldn’t find a replacement quick enough?
3. Kcee in his all pink getup
Kcee, we probably all know by now, has the most interesting fashion style, but this particular outfit was definitely a big NO NO!
4. Ini Edo at AMVCA 2016
This particular look wouldn’t have been here if my list had been about distasteful wedding dresses. You get my point? You don’t?
5. Tiwa Savage at the Access Mavin concert
6. Halima Abubakar in an all-yellow ensemble
Halima Abubakar does not know the meaning of the word subtle. I mean, if you’re going to wear a bright yellow dress, paired with an equally bright yellow shorts, one would assume that you’d go for darker colors to complete the look, right? Just look at those shoes! And is that a tiger face I see on the shorts?
Look at that RED purse! My God!!!
7. Alexx Ekubo at AMVCA 2015
Alexx, this is not you at all! I don’t want to believe that you could have worn this to a public event.
8. Belinda Effah at a movie premiere
Woman, not spider man!
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Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card (original 1990; edition 1999)
by Orson Scott Card, Scott Brick (Narrator), Robert Forster (Narrator), Michael Gross (Narrator)
Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card by Orson Scott Card (1990)
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Maps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written between 1977 and 1990. For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one place, with some extra surprises as well.
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In this enormous volume are forty-six stories, plus ten long, intensely personal essays, unique to this volume. In them the author reveals some of his reasons and motivations for writing, with a good deal of autobiography into the bargain.
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This third volume of Orson Scott Card's five-volume anthology of short stories features ten fantasies and fables full of princesses and giants, bears and monkeys, magic and revelation. Discover the pitfalls of paradise, how to handle a dragon, the true secret of happiness, and much more. Card offers background commentaries for each story in a series of afterwords and introductions. Stories included are: Unaccompanied Sonata, A Cross-Country Trip to Kill Richard Nixon, The Porcelain Salamander, Middle Woman, The Bully and the Beast, The Princess and the Bear, Sandmagic, The Best Day, A Plague of Butterflies, and The Monkeys Thought `Twas All in Fun.
(summary from another edition)
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A new kind of daycare is coming to Kansas City.
It’s the first of its kind and specially built for kids recovering from cancer, transplants and other medical conditions.
The innovative center will transform a now empty warehouse on Cherry Street near 31st Street and will soon be changing children’s lives. RJ’s Children’s Haven will offer a safe daycare environment for kids dealing with some of the most difficult medical conditions.
Mohamed A. Radhi is on the advisory board and has been working with kids who have cancer for more than 20 years.
“It’s the first of it’s kind in the country — and even in the world,” Radhi said. “Those kids who can now have a place where the parents have to go to work, and instead of staying at home, at least they will have a place where they will play and enjoy life like every other kid.”
Kids like 6-year-old Lincoln Brewster who was born with Chédiak–Higashi syndrome, a rare autosomal recessive disorder.
He had a bone marrow transplant when he was seven months old, and his mom Brittany said she struggled dealing with daycare for him. As a single mom she said she was lucky to have help from her family, but even then it wasn’t easy.
“We were maybe in daycare for three days, and then we were back in the hospital for seven because he would get a fever,” she said. “And we’d be there for antibiotic treatment for seven days, and then we’d be back in daycare for three or four, and that was kind of the cycle of it.”
Brewster said a place like RJ’s could have changed everything for her and Lincoln when he was younger.
“I think it’s just a relief that your kid is good hands,” she said. “That you can go to work and know that your kid is going to be safe. It’s just a stress lifted off of your shoulders.”
She said she would bring Lincoln to daycare always afraid that her phone would ring, and he would be going back to the hospital.
“It’s difficult,” Brewster said. “It’s scary getting calls from daycare and them saying he had another seizure, or he’s running a fever, or this kid has this illness just so you know. It’s hard to take him knowing someone has taken their kid that’s sick, or you know that people take their kids when they’re sick because they can’t miss work.”
Rhadi said the facility will have nurses on hand, and staff trained to deal with immune safety. They will also have a special air filtration system and shoes won’t be allowed in the building.
“That’s the most important thing we can do to those kids is to put them back in a normal environment as soon as possible so they don’t feel they are isolated or different, or they are sick,” Rhadi said.
“I will definitely be volunteering, and I think it will be a wonderful thing for kids and families in Kansas City,” Brewster said.
He said about 200 children are diagnosed with cancer each year locally.
“Kids with cancer deserve the best, and they are going to be healthy and normal,” Rhadi said. “They just need some time, and we can help bridge the gap in their life cycle.”
The center plans to serve children from 2-8 years old and be open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. five days a week. They hope to open the doors in August.
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We are continuously looking for PhD students on several research topics including but not limited to:
- Data Mining, Machine Learning and Constraint Programming
as advertised on KDNuggets, the Pascal network and the CP newsletter
We currently (on Jan 1, 2012) have three open positions (at the Ph.d. or post-doc level) in the area of data mining, and its combination with constraint satisfaction and constraint programming.
This is in the context of two projects funded by the Research Foundation -- Flanders and the European FET Project ICON (Inductive Constraint Programming, 2012-2014, coordinated by KULeuven, in collaboration with Cork Constraint Computation Centre, University of Pisa, and CNRS-LIRMM Montpellier); these are projects that run for 3 to 4 years.
The successful applicants will work under the direction of Prof. Luc De Raedt and Dr. Siegfried Nijssen. The two projects funded by Research Foundation Flanders are in collaboration with Prof. Bart Goethals (University of Antwerp).
The research questions that we are trying to tackle in these projects are related to:
- how to combine / integrate constraint programming with data mining ? (cf. Dagstuhl Seminar on Constraint programming meets Data Mining and Machine Learning)
- how to learn constraints from data ?
- how to adapt constraint programming solvers for use in data mining ? (cf. Guns, Nijssen, De Raedt, Artifcial Intelligence, 2011 and http://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/CP4IM/)
- how to mine for pattern sets ? (pattern set mining wants to discover global models, whereas pattern mining looks for local regularities)
- how to mine for patters interactively and instantly ?
The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is an equal opportunity employer.
- Learning in large graphs
In large graphs and networks, nodes are not independent due to the links between them. Therefore, classical learning theory does not apply. Moreover, due to the network structure and size of the data, constructing algorithms with tractable computational cost is challenging. In this project, we will explore new theory and algorithms for learning from network structured data.
- Learning from data originating from evolution
When performing statistics and machine learning in bio-medical application domains, an important challenge is the fact that individuals are not independent but originate from common ancestors. Therefore, in many cases training set and test set will not be drawn identically and independently (i.i.d.). In this project, we study evolutionary populations from a machine learning point of view, and develop new learning models taking evolutionary dependencies into account.
Example publication: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/cgi-bin-dtai/publ_info.pl?id=42687
- Decision support in intensive care medicine
This project aims at improving decision support in intensive care by relational data mining and probabilistic reasoning and planning methods, on which the DTAI group has extensive expertise.
Example publication: https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/124512
- Learning the Structure of Probabilistic Logical Models
In this project we will explore different algorithms for learning a statistical model from a relational database. We are particularly interested in exploring efficient learning techniques as well as applying the developed algorithms to real-world biological and medical databases.
Example publication: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jdavis/davis.pdf
- Graphical Model Structure Learning
It is also possible to explore learning the structure of a propositional model such as a Bayesian network or Markov network.
Example publication: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jdavis/davisICML10.pdf
- Efficient Inference for Probabilistic Logical Models
Probabilistic logical languages provide powerful formalisms for knowledge representation and learning. Yet performing inference in these languages is extremely costly. In this project will explore various techniques for improving the efficiency of inference in these languages.
Example publication: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/pedrod/papers/aaai08a.pdf
- Learning from processes in relational domain
Processes in the real world are often very complex, and the factors influencing individual actions are only accessible through several connected relations. Also, related actions can not be considered independent training examples, and learning the rules a process must satisfy are hard to learn directly. In this process we want to research interactive models for learning verifiable process rules.
- Probabilistic logical models for computational biolog
There is a huge literature on modeling individual relations or processes in biology. Still, only little work successfully combines information from different scales (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, ...) in a statistically clear and accurate way. In this project we want to apply probabilistic logical models to construct multi-scale models for computational biology.
- Flexible high-throughput data mining
Many sciences, including biology, are becoming increasingly data-rich. Massive amounts of data are generated in high-throughput processes, making the use of advanced data analysis tools possible and necessary. In this project, we aim at developing a platform for high-throughput analysis of images generated by time-lapse microscopy. This involves the transformation of video data into a structured format that allows efficient storage and data mining, and the development of flexible, query-oriented, data mining methods for the resulting database.
Project: Elaboration of the CellPhInDER platform
If you are interested in any of these topics, please check our page about how to apply.
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I own a Remington 870 Express with an 18" slug barrel - 4+1 rounds of 12ga. juju. I got it at Wal-Mart for under $250 a couple of years ago. That's a WHOLE
lotta hurtin' for not much money!! Another plus for the pump action is its feed/eject reliability.
My "dream" shotgun is the Benelli M4 auto with magazine extension, tritium sights and pistol grip. I can't see how it could get any better than that for a home defense shotgun. I have fired a friend's Benelli, and the recoil is 1/2 that of my 870.
The Remington 870 will do a great job of HD; it has been the standard for decades. The Remington 1100 auto is also a great choice, with a short slug barrel. The Benelli, configured for tactical use (as above) wins hands down, though - at around $900 American.
The 12ga. is pretty much the last word in home defense - it is light years ahead of any handgun in terms of "stopping power." It's almost like shooting a bad guy with a cannon! And facing that 3/4" bore may be all that is needed for the BGs to start seeing things your way. | <urn:uuid:2a06bff5-8991-4e35-8626-09dfe30501cc> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://thefiringline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1747176&postcount=3 | 2015-04-28T12:02:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246661364.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045741-00100-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952093 | 269 |
OAKFIELD - Atheline Mae "Peggy" Lawler of Oakfield died May 7, 2016 in Houlton surrounded by her family. She was born Mar. 21, 1926 in Amity, the daughter of William and Beatrice (Speed) Muir.
She was a member of St. Agnes Catholic Church. Her home was always open and she never knew how many would be at the supper table. To Peggy her family was her life.
She is survived by six children, Maureen and Larry Emery of Hampden, Joseph and Marguerite Lawler of Smyrna, Theresa and Thomas Goff of Merrill, Bonnie and Bryce Clark of Merrill, Christine and Gary Brewer of Oakfield and Nancy and Walter Weymouth of Charleston,Me.; eleven grandchildren, seventeen great grandchildren and one great great grandson; one sister, Vera and Ken Butler of Houlton; and many nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by her husband of 55 years, Donald; her parents; one son, Michael. and five brothers, Alston, Eugene, Cecil, Donald and William.
Friends may call 9am Wed. at Bowers Funeral Home, Island Falls until time to proceed to St. Agnes Catholic Church where a mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10am with Fa. David Raymond celebrant. Interment will be in the St. Agnes Cemetery.
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Sign Rock Mud Bog
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A great English poet has just crossed over to France in order to greet Victor Hugo. All the newspapers are full of his name and he is the great topic of conversation in all drawing-rooms. Fifteen years ago I had occasion several times to meet Algernon Charles Swinburne. I will attempt to show him just as I saw him and to give an idea of the strange impression he made on me, which will remain with me throughout time.
I believe it was in 1867 or in 1868 that an unknown young Englishman came to Etretat and bought a little but hidden under great trees. It was said that he lived there, always alone, in a strange manner; and he aroused the inimical surprise of the natives, for the inhabitants were sullen and foolishly malicious, as they always are in little towns.
They declared that this whimsical Englishman ate nothing but boiled. roasted or stewed monkey; that he would see no one; that he talked to himself hours at a time and many other surprising things that made people think that he was different from other men. They were surprised that he should live alone with a monkey. Had it been a cat or a dog they would have said nothing. But a monkey! Was that not frightful? What savage tastes the man must have!
I knew this young man only from seeing him in the streets. He was short, plump, without being fat, mild-looking, and he wore a little blond mustache, which was almost invisible.
Chance brought us together. This savage had amiable and pleasing manners, but he was one of those strange Englishmen that one meets here and there throughout the world.
Endowed with remarkable intelligence, he seemed to live in a fantastic dream, as Edgar Poe must have lived. He had translated into English a volume of strange Icelandic legends, which I ardently desired to see translated into French. He loved the supernatural, the dismal and grewsome, but he spoke of the most marvellous things with a calmness that was typically English, to which his gentle and quiet voice gave a semblance of reality that was maddening.
Full of a haughty disdain for the world, with its conventions, prejudices and code of morality, he had nailed to his house a name that was boldly impudent. The keeper of a lonely inn who should write on his door: "Travellers murdered here!" could not make a more sinister jest. I never had entered his dwelling, when one day I received an invitation to luncheon, following an accident that had occurred to one of his friends, who had been almost drowned and whom I had attempted to rescue.
Although I was unable to reach the man until he had already been rescued, I received the hearty thanks of the two Englishmen, and the following day I called upon them.
The friend was a man about thirty years old. He bore an enormous head on a child's body--a body without chest or shoulders. An immense forehead, which seemed to have engulfed the rest of the man, expanded like a dome above a thin face which ended in a little pointed beard. Two sharp eyes and a peculiar mouth gave one the impression of the head of a reptile, while the magnificent brow suggested a genius.
A nervous twitching shook this peculiar being, who walked, moved, acted by jerks like a broken spring.
This was Algernon Charles Swinburne, son of an English admiral and grandson, on the maternal side, of the Earl of Ashburnham.
He strange countenance was transfigured when he spoke. I have seldom seen a man more impressive, more eloquent, incisive or charming in conversation. His rapid, clear, piercing and fantastic imagination seemed to creep into his voice and to lend life to his words. His brusque gestures enlivened his speech, which penetrated one like a dagger, and he had bursts of thought, just as lighthouses throw out flashes of fire, great, genial lights that seemed to illuminate a whole world of ideas.
The home of the two friends was pretty and by no means commonplace. Everywhere were paintings, some superb, some strange, representing different conceptions of insanity. Unless I am mistaken, there was a water-color which represented the head of a dead man floating in a rose- colored shell on a boundless ocean, under a moon with a human face.
Here and there I came across bones. I clearly remember a flayed hand on which was hanging some dried skin and black muscles, and on the snow- white bones could be seen the traces of dried blood.
The food was a riddle which I could not solve. Was it good? Was it bad? I could not say. Some roast monkey took away all desire to make a steady diet of this animal, and the great monkey who roamed about among us at large and playfully pushed his head into my glass when I wished to drink cured me of any desire I might have to take one of his brothers as a companion for the rest of my days.
As for the two men, they gave me the impression of two strange, original, remarkable minds, belonging to that peculiar race of talented madmen from among whom have arisen Poe, Hoffmann and many others.
If genius is, as is commonly believed, a sort of aberration of great minds, then Algernon Charles Swinburne is undoubtedly a genius.
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
At any rate, this poet remains one of the first of his time, through his originality and polished form. He is an exalted lyrical singer who seldom bothers about the good and humble truth, which French poets are now seeking so persistently and patiently. He strives to set down dreams, subtle thoughts, sometimes great, sometimes visibly forced, but sometimes magnificent.
Two years later I found the house closed and its tenants gone. The furniture was being sold. In memory of them I bought the hideous flayed hand. On the grass an enormous square block of granite bore this simple word: "Nip." Above this a hollow stone offered water to the birds. It was the grave of the monkey, who had been hanged by a young, vindictive negro servant. It was said that this violent domestic had been forced to flee at the point of his exasperated master's revolver. After wandering about without home or food for several days, he returned and began to peddle barley-sugar in the streets. He was expelled from the country after he had almost strangled a displeased customer.
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In my opinion, berry lips are the sexiest trend this fall (and Emma Watson, pictured here at the premiere of The Perks of Being a Wallflower in Toronto, apparently agrees). But that doesn't mean you should just slap on the first tube of blackberry lipstick you see. We talked to celebrity makeup artist Molly R. Stern for her tips on making this vampy style work for you—without looking, well, like a vampire.
Pick Your Berry
Blackberry, raspberry, boysenberry—what's your jam? It all depends on your skin tone. If you have fair skin, choose something that's dark but sheer. "This will keep you from looking like a character out of a Tim Burton film," says Stern, who loves Tarte Lipsurgence Lip Tint in Moody. Medium skin tones can get away with a richer, truer berry, like Hourglass Opaque Rouge Liquid Lipstick in Empress. And those with dark skin should choose a deep color that won't blend in with their skin, Stern says. She recommends Nars Lipstick in Scarlet Empress—a full-bodied wine shade with rich red undertones.
Keep Lips Ripe
If you have thin lips, a dark lipstick could make them appear even smaller. So start with a sheer stain and use a lip pencil to fill out the lip ever so slightly. "Just don't overdo it," Stern says. "You don't want to end up with a clown mouth." You can also dab a lighter colored lipstick on the center of your mouth to make lips appear fuller.
Don't Forget Your Cheeks
Unless you want to look gothic (Halloween is a week away), the key to wearing a berry lip is to keep the rest of the face fresh and glowing. Use a sheer foundation and concealer and skip powder entirely. Then apply a blush in a complementary shade. If you're stumped, take a trick from makeup artist Dick Page and simply sheer out the same lip color on cheeks.
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I'm a father of four living and working out of Aberdeen who writes code, usually on the web, for a living.
I work for various agencies and clients in the area on projects as diverse as ecommerce sites, web apps, CMS integrations, charity sites, Laravel solutions, Craft CMS plugins and more. I also work on my own stuff from time to time and contribute to open source projects where I can.
If you think you could benefit from my expertise on your project, drop me a line below and I'll get back to you.
Some people said nice things about me, now you read them...
Billy has consistently surprised me throughout the time we’ve worked together. He genuinely finds answers where others see problems. Billy is a self-taught developer with an appetite to continue learning every day which is truly an asset in this industry. To top it off, he’s hilarious. Billy is ace.
cups of coffee
lines of code
"dad's taxi" runs
hours of coding
Here are some projects I've worked on and a bit about what I did on them.
This is a web app written in Codeigniter I took over during my time at DEER/digital and completed while working at Tide. It aims to help you improve your golf game.
What I did:
This personal project is a web tool for developers and website owners to easily get coordinates of places and build their own Google maps. Written in a combination of Laravel for the back end and Vue.js/Bootstrap/jQuery for the interface. It uses Google's material design guidelines for most of it's interface to keep on-message.
What I did:
Batchsizer is a web tool to allow web designers to resize a lot of images at once. The idea is that they can put in their settings and the tool will convert all the images they need for a responsive design in one go. You can see a load of examples of how images can be converted on this page.
What I did:
Many of my projects, especially as a freelancer, involve agency work that I sign an NDA for or just can't really show well here (did I mention I'm a back-end guy)
What's going on in the world of Billy?
I re-visit my pricing yearly in order to remain competitive and offer value for money. I always try to be extremely flexible so get in touch anyway even if you had different numbers in mind.
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'Hi Tricia, I just wanted to say a huge thank you to you for doing my hair on my wedding day! It was absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much.
I want to thank you so much for your fabulous work on the day. You were amazing to work with. Myself and the women were all delighted with the hair dos. Despite storm Desmond there was not a hair out of place. I was thrilled!!!
Also thank you for your lovely message. It was very apt for the day x x
You will always hold a special place in our memories of the day..
Cliodhna and Kenneth x x x
An absolute star at what she does! Tricia did the hair for my wedding in Aug 2015..I loved what she did with all our hair and despite some chaotic dancing the hair didn't budge all day!! She did an amazing job on my mothers hair too, she got so many compliments on the day. I have never seen her hair look so well. We were all so impressed by Tricia that my sister rang her the next week and was delighted to be able to book her for her wedding too in Dec...this another great success!!
Thanks so much Tricia
I hope this email finds you and your family well, and first and foremost THANK YOU SO SO MUCH for everything you did for us on the 18th June. You were fantastic with us from the moment we met you and a special presence on the day.
I also thought you might like to see this film of your work in action, and we have a number of thank you cards on their way too.
Thank you so much again Tricia and we hope to visit The West of Ireland soon to get a present to you,
Keep in touch!
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ROSEN BRIDGE Candle Lemonade
It appears that the all-American summer drink, lemonade, may have had its origin in medieval Egypt. Although the lemon originates farther to the east, and lemonade may very well have been invented in one of the eastern countries, the earliest written evidence of lemonade comes from Egypt.
To prevent fire and injury, burn candle in sight. Keep away from vibrations. Keep out reach of children and pets. Never put candle near anything can catch fire.
Only burn candle on fire resistant surface. Do not burn the candle for more than 3 hours. Do not extinguish the candle before the surface of soy wax is completely melt. Do not use when ½ inch wax remain on bottom.
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Hey guys long time no see or talk for that matter. Things have been really crazy over the last year and work has all but consumed my life! In a good way! ANYWAY! Lets get down to business. Quarterbacks - Nothing really impressive from any of them. Brady made some nice high arching passes and some good accurate throws but the same could be said for any QB with no defense out there. Brady of course looks phenomenal. Also he is very vocal this early in camp yelling out "hurry up" "lets go" and just plain out screaming alot. I dont find much appealing about Walter Hoyer or O'Connell for the matter. Just looked average practice going through the motions type of deal. Running backs - Look maybe its just me but Maroney and Morris took a majority of the "starting snaps" from TB while Fred Taylor and Lawfirm took other reps from the backup. Maroney looks to just run straight into the huddle now and seems to be copying more of Morris and Taylor model. Just take the ball into the whole and move around after you break through. Maroney looks good now but when doesnt he in camp? I still believe a 3 headed backfield is used. WR - Moss and Welker look to be hitting their strides already and the 4 man shotgun Had Galloway wide left Moss wide right. Welker short right and Edelmen short left. Ive got to tell you Edelmen is impressive to watch the guy creates room catches the ball and seems to be shifty enough to gain extra yards, hes also shadowing Welker every where he goes. On a disappointing note i do not feel comfortable with Galloway yet nor do i feel comfortable with Greg Lewis at all. Greg Lewis was cheered for 3 of his catches but the fans dont pay attention to small details. All 3 catches were out of bounds catches. It was actually pretty crappy that he couldnt realize where he was on the field when making those plays. No wonder when Herena Jones let off on his pursuit the guy was 2 yards out when he made contact with the ball. Poor vision on his part he should know alot better. OL: Sea Bass is a large powerful man. If this guy can get some technique down and learn some leverage he looks pretty enormous. But pardon the pun with great size comes great responsibilty. He still looks OVERLY RAW. The power and size is there but the work into it is not. Side Note Matt Light looks to be in great shape. DL: Not many guys out there not many big names. Spent lots of time being pushed around and being yelled at for being out of place. Bleh performance lots of improvement to be had LB: My god i have fallen in love with what looks like our two starting inside LB's Jerod Mayo and Gary Guyton look absolutely phenomenal. Great vision, good size, shed blocks overly well. Saw gaps, filled gaps. Guyton has definitely put on some great weight and it has made him a more complete package. he still also commands very good speed. He is reminding me of a very good young version of Roman Phifer. Pierre Woods looks to be our starting OLB opposite Thomas. But i think he may be injured he came up limping after quite a few plays and looked like he could only walk through plays. Scary. In positive news Paris Lennon looks to be a great backup! Several coaches were praising him for his plays he was making and he looked to be holding his own! DB: Not much positive news here. Well not much of any news.Terrence Wheatley should be nicknamed Stumbelina because every time he tried to make up ground he stumbles. Moss doped him quite a few times. Honarable mention for #27 Herena Daze Jones, batted away quite a few balls and made some good plays overall. Chung was mostly regulated to backup and st duty. Belichick MOMENTS!!!!!! Some funny stuff regarding the boss. Seemed quite displeased with his DL performance and backup defense. Made several stop plays to go out and re tell the plays and what was supposed to look like. Even said "Stop asking questions and just make the plays" Pulled Adalius Thomas aside made a few pointers to him then made him take a lap. "Hurry it up!!! 15 seconds!" "Get to the 5, 2 minutes" "stop do it again" (talking to DL) "offense take a lap" this was confusing because the offense had scored the TD i think it was because Moss punted the ball into the fans after he scored it. Any thoughts or questions are welcomed!!! After POST EDIT!!! Extra stuff i was reminded of by BOR: Scary moment when 62 Titus Adams tackled Fred Taylor in the knees causing BB to run over and ask "what are you doing? lets keep it to 2 hand down" | <urn:uuid:406ec587-aaa8-43e5-8c4a-e659ddd86fd6> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/threads/seans-overanalyzing-camp-notes-8-5am.256268/ | 2015-03-06T17:39:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936469305.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074109-00323-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98172 | 989 |
Washington, February 8, 2018
The Family First and Prevention Services Act Finds Hope in the Continuing Resolution
As you all remember, back in 2016, we were only votes away from witnessing what many would have considered the largest transformation the child welfare system this county has seen in years. With very little fanfare on January 4, 2017, day two of the 115th Congress, the House of Representatives sent a signal to us all by reintroducing the Family First Act. This was a sign of the Congress’ commitment to supporting children, their families and the thousands of young people in the foster care system.
FosterClub was pleased to see that 13 months later on Monday, February 5, 2018, the Family First Act appeared to, once again, rise from the grave. As we have seen in the past, the Family First Act has proven to be a piece of legislation that has many advocates concerned about the implications of this becoming public law. FosterClub, ultimately, is more concerned about the implications of this not passing. We don’t know much now, but the Family First Prevention Services Act is still within our grasp and we will be sure to keep you all updated as we learn more.
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Fleet sales in Poland were down in January by 2,000 units, when compared to the same time last year.
The total fleet market saw 19,000 true fleet sales in Poland, according to Dataforce. The No. 1 best selling fleet vehicle for the country was the SEAT Ateca. This was followed by the SEAT Leon, then the Nissan Qashqai in third.
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Drinking out of a can will never be the same again... introducing the new 360 degree lid!
New cans allow the top to be peeled off like a soup tin
Sly Fox is the first company in North America to use the new lid
Can was originally developed for FIFA World Cup in South Africa in 2010
360 degrees of consumption: The entire lid of the can is removable, 'enhancing the drinking experience'
Whether or not you believe in the old adage 'if it ain't broke don't fix it', one company is trying to change the way we consume beverages on-the-go.
The Sly Fox Brewing Company has come up with the novel idea of a 360 degree lid.
Drinkers peel off the top of the can and enjoy the contents as if drinking from a regular cup.
The technology has been developed by Crown Holdings, Inc.
The company say the entire lid of the can is removable and 'essentially eliminates the need for separate glassware.'
Instead of cracking open a small hole on the top of the can, the 360 Lid allows the top to be completely removed, creating an aluminum beer cup.
It functions like that of a soup can, with a peel-back lid, exposing a 1.75-inch opening.
Sly Fox Brewing Company will become the first brewery in North America to utilize the innovative 360 Lid.
'This technology allows the full flavor and aroma of the beer to hit the drinker's senses and makes the can an even more appealing package for outdoor activities and situations where you want to be able to move around and sip your beer easily,' said Sly Fox Brewing Company head brewer Brian O'Reilly.
'Craft brew enthusiasts want to enjoy their beer as it was meant to be experienced whether at home or at an event and the 360 Lid makes the beverage can the perfect vessel to do just that.'
Cup in hand: Forget about glasses - the 360 lid allows drinks cans to be turned into an aluminum cup
Sly Fox is rolling it out on its Helles Golden Lager before moving on to other cans. Right now, Sly Fox is only available in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware.
The cans also have another environmental payoff in that the can could be used over and over. The metal too is 100% recyclable.
The lid seems to have had a fairly positive reaction online although some are concerned that the circular design might simple lead to unfortunate instances of people cutting their fingers or lips on the thin metallic edge.
The designers say the top of the can has been specially designed to be sipped out of and has a blunted edge.
have also pointed out that lid can be thrown out to create litter just
like the old pull tabs of the 1970s and of course the drink is more
likely to spill when walking or driving.
Different: You can almost understand why someone was more interested in taking a picture of a can rather than the on-the-field action
Exclusive design: The 360 degree can for Pikeland Pils will be offered exclusively at Citizens Bank Park, this spring and summer, the baseball stadium that's the home of the Philadelphia Phillies
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I wanted to write something, but not sure what, and so I decided to just post a discussion on current male idols who has ventured into acting. There has been a rise in idols who have tried their hands at acting, and like every other drama fan out there, I’m always skeptical when it comes to idols acting – unless of course, they have proven to have the skills for it.
It’s just a point of view, so it might not be what you think and agree on, but it’s just what I feel.
Basically, it’s just a list of names and how I feel about their acting so far. It might not include every idol out there, but it probably has most of the names I could remember and they were in something I have watched.
MBLAQ Lee Joon
I’ve only seen him in Gap Dong, and currently airing, Mr Baek. I found him a little awkward at times in Gap Dong but he was watchable. I guess it’s probably because he was dealing with a rather difficult character. So far his acting for Mr Baek, has been pretty decent and I would say it seems natural and you wouldn’t know he’s an idol, unless you know he is.
JYJ Park Yoo Chun
I’ve seen him in Sungkyunkwan Scandal, Miss Ripley, I Miss You, Rooftop Prince and 3 Days. He’s not bad, but he’s not exactly natural either. He doesn’t have much of a scene presence for me but personally I thought he improved a lot in 3 Days. Now I need to watch his movie since I heard good things about the movie, and his acting.
ZEA Im Si Wan
Jang Geu Rae!!!!! This name is probably going to stick with him for some time. He’s absolutely lovable and natural in Misaeng and you really just have to thank whoever who cast him in, or applaud him for picking such a good project. I did watch him in Triangle, but I didn’t finish the drama so can’t comment on that. Waiting For Love was only 4 episodes so – no comments. Shall wait for his next acting project and I think he’s someone I probably would keep my eyes on.
JYJ Kim Jaejoong
He was bad in Protect the Boss, and the movie Jackal but I think he improved in Triangle. However, I didn’t finish watching Triangle, so I can’t comment further.
Heading to the ground is a drama that-must-not-be-named and should be erased from his resume forever. Hahahaha. The drama was bad, and his acting didn’t make it any better. He only appeared in Poseidon for a few episodes before his character was written off (?) I think. I didn’t finish Poseidon either. I thought he improved a lot and did well in his first saguek, The Night Watchman. Too bad the drama was kind of slow and draggy. But he should totally try out more sagueks.
FT Island’s Lee Hongki
I’m personally a fan of FT Island, and I can never get used to seeing him on-screen until I really put my mind to it. To me, I do find him shorter compared to other males (though he isn’t exactly short. the others are all giants.) and I wouldn’t say he’s very good-looking. To view him as an actor, it’s really really hard for me because I’m so used to seeing him singing – but I think he’s made for comedy dramas. I think he flawlessly portray funny expressions and seems really natural at it.
ZEA Park Hyungshik
A hidden gem. To me. Hahaha. I know he acted in Heirs but his character there wasn’t anything to shout about. It’s only when I watched weekend drama, What’s With My Family that I started to keep my eyes on him. He seems really good and natural, and cute – and okay, I’m keeping a look out for his next drama for sure~!
Kim Hyun Joong
I would never say Kim Hyun Joong is a good actor, because though he seems to portray his characters well, but most of the time, his facial expressions come across as awkward.
CN Blue Yonghwa
I have a love-hate relationship with on-screen Yonghwa. Sometimes he seems expressionless and just reading the script, but sometimes he deliver. Out of all his dramas, I thought he did well in You’re Beautiful and The Three Musketeers.
EXO Do Kyungsoo
I still think it’s a bit too soon to comment on Kyungsoo – but in It’s Okay It’s Love, the first few episodes (especially ‘crying’ scenes) were very awkward – but he improved as episodes went by. I am looking forward to more projects because he does seem to have a flair for acting, and I’m just waiting for the movie Cart to be released.
Infinite Hoya, L, Woohyun, Sungyeol
Sorry to say…. but nope. They need more practice and I hope that helps. I think L is the better one out of the four of them, looking at the reviews for My Lovely Girl and what I think personally. All of them are still cringe-worthy and they really need more practice.
I’ve only seen him in Let’s Eat – and I loved that drama, and loved him too 🙂 But not enough to comment if he’s going to be a good actor or not.
Super Junior Choi Siwon
I didn’t like anything he was in – until The King of Dramas and that did it for me. He improved a lot and was really natural and awesome in it. Now, if only he comes back to dramaland with a good role and portray it well.
He’s not bad…. but personally, I don’t feel anything for his on-screen presence.
I had no idea he was a singer and I only found out after almost finishing Answer Me 1994. I think he would do well. He seems to have a good flair for it – and the characters he played so far are all good choices 🙂
Alright – that’s it and all I could remember.
Again, it’s just my own personal opinion and of course everyone is entitled to theirs. There’s been a huge rise in idol-actors and though I don’t really like them, but some, very few can really act and should just act. Others, maybe should try their hands on something else.
I feel sad for the other aspiring actors, because their chances to act have become much harder nowadays due to the rise of idol-actors 😦
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Here we were worried about steroids, and the NBA players are more interested in POT!
If I were a B-league baller, I’d hope for this to come to pass, as it will surely open the door for a few more players.
Have these guys heard of Rickey Williams, running back from Texas who blew his NFL career because of marijuana?
According to 365 Rundown:
10 out of 10 active NBA players believe it’s time to LEGALIZE medicinal marijuana in the NBA … and the recent video of Kevin Durant dropping prescription pot in L.A. is only fueling the pro-weed fire.
Here’s the dilemma … since Rx weed is already legal in several states, should the league continue to outlaw the green stuff if a player has a legitimate prescription from a doctor???take our poll - story continues below
We asked 10 active NBA players (all of whom wanted to remain anonymous) … and they all made it very clear — it’s time to legalize it!!!
10 out of 10?
The current CBA expires in 2017, and during the next round of negotiations, expect the players’ union to push for this.
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Half Shell Gourd African Style Thumb Piano
Paul & Sue Bergstrom
Handcrafted in Georgia USA, this miniature instrument is a fun and unusual way to play a tune. Using a gourd as a backing, this ancient piano plays only 8 notes for will have a crowd dancing in no time! | <urn:uuid:0039b265-499e-4ccd-b2f0-78db27a070af> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://online.findgift.com/gift-ideas/half-shell-gourd-african-style-thumb-piano-pid-429791/ | 2017-05-29T04:01:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612013.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529034049-20170529054049-00491.warc.gz | en | 0.838231 | 71 |
DuraMax Large Metal Garages Provide A Convenient Storage Garage For Homes Without One.
These large metal garages are great for parking your car or SUV and keeping it out of the rain or snow. Garages help you house personal, recreational and landscaping equipment to free up space in your home. Extra wide 99" single roll-up door is wide enough to drive in common SUVs. Made using thick steel walls with rib reinforced design for increased strength and dent resistance. Reinforced metal inserted columns offer strength and rigidity that can handle up to 20 lbs. per square foot of snow. Metal garages will not fade, rot or mildew like standard wood sheds. Foundation kit and hardware included. Easy assembly. Note: Check your local building ordinances & CCR's before purchase. 10 Year Limited Warranty.
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Imagine being in a situation that you could not control. Whether that be a horrible storm or a trial that you think you will never get through, we must trust Christ to protect us through storms the may come at us. Instead of thinking of what we can do to stop the situation, we must depend on Christ for His strength is much stronger than ours. Christ defeated the grave, so the next time you see a situation that is dangerous, run to Him and have faith for with God, He can do all things.
“And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!” Matthew 8:24-27
Jesus was disappointed with the disciples when they showed little faith. Though the storm looked deadly and menacing, Christ still calmed the waves with just the sound of His voice; therefore, instead of panicking, we must realize that we have a Savior who can move the mountains and can make the waves calm with just His voice.
Like I stated earlier, Jesus defeated the grave, which means He can do anything, so why worry when you see trouble on the horizon? Yes, it is human nature to become fearful and scared, but when we let our emotions take complete control, we forget who is in control.
“God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.” Psalm 46:1
Why fear when Christ is your refuge and strength? He will be there when trouble arises, so instead of letting your thoughts and emotions run wild, remain calm and trust Christ, for He will not lead you into disaster.
“Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.”” Deuteronomy 31:6
Why should we be fearful when the Lord will never forsake us? Christ is with us when we wake up, He is with us throughout the day, and He is with us always; therefore, we must trust that He will get us through our trials. Though we may not be able to figure out a solution, we can rest in the thought of knowing that Jesus knows the answer. Jesus already knows the future and He has plans of hope for us, so whatever troubles we are going through will not prevail, for Christ will guide us through them and silence them.
“He will not allow your foot to be moved;
He who keeps you will not slumber.” Psalm 121:3
Jesus is always watching over us and there isn’t a moment He stops watching us. He will protect us, so He will make sure no evil can harm us. Why are we going to be afraid of the world when God has already defeated it? When God is on our side, nothing can stand against, so the next time a situation you cannot control comes up, trust the one who knows the answers to all things.
There will be times where we are in situations that are heartbreaking, unnerving, and even fearful, but God promised that He would never leave our side. Instead of thinking about depending on our strengths and what we could do, we should run to Jesus and call on His name, for He has the power to end any suffering and trial that we are in.
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Bandai Hobby: Gundam SEED Astray - RG 1/144 Gundam Astray Red Frame Model Kit
- Adopted the inner frame system "The Advanced MS Joint."
- Inner frames and outer armor move relative to each other, just like real human.
- The finely color-coded parts can express the shades without painting.
- Luster of metal can be expressed with realistic decals.
- Includes various marking stickers.
- The Japanese sword "Gerbera Straight" is silver color plated. The pattern on the blade is also reproduced.
- Includes a beam rifle, beam sabers and a shield.
- Runner x9, Realistic decal x1, Instruction manual x1
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- Locations: Deira
- Duration: 3 Hours
here's a short list of the people it might benefit.
Are you ...
- an entrepreneur?
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- just starting your own business?
- thinking of starting your own business?
- a manager in a company?
- an office manager with bookkeeping duties?
- an administrative assistant with bookkeeping duties?
- a bookkeeper or accounting clerk who has learned on the job and needs to understand the concepts in order to do your job better or be promoted?
- an investor who would like to understand where the numbers are coming from on the financial statements that you read?
- Someone who has taken an academic accounting course and still doesn't know a debit from a credit?
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THE ACCOUNTING COURSE?
The important topics that will be covered in the accounting course are:
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- Types of business entities and enterprises (and their advantages and disadvantages).
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- How to post to a general ledger.
- How to compute payroll.
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Care about the future of cycling?
If you enjoy cycling, please come to this meeting and have your say about the future of cycle forum.
- 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Discuss the future of cycle forum
Wednesday 23rd November 2016
19:30-21:30 (Meeting starts at 20:00)
Come along to our meeting to discuss the future of the Cycle Forum and find new people to take it forward into 2017 and beyond. We are particularly keen to bring in more women, and parents who want safer routes for their children to cycle to school and at weekends.
Our provisional agenda:
— Briefing on our campaign for safe cycling in Sevenoaks from 2009 to date.
— Adrian Berendt (Tunbridge Wells) on progress in our neighbouring borough’s campaign for safe cycling.
— Discussion on tactics — how to take forward the 2012 Cycle Strategy for the district and get it implemented.
— Future of the Cycle Forum — should we move to a more formal structure with membership and elected committee? Reg Oakley and I are hoping to find a small group of keen volunteers to take over from us and continue exerting pressure on local government.
The fifth anniversary of the unimplemented Cycle Strategy falls due next March and we want to use this anniversary to inject some movement into the process of making Sevenoaks a safe place to cycle, not just for experienced riders but for future generations. If you want to read the Cycle Strategy and its proposed routes, it is on the transport pages of the Sevenoaks District Council website.
COST: No charge to attend
MEET: At Sevenoaks Community Centre (Cramptons Road near Bat and Ball) TN14 5EF
LEADER: John M Morrison
For more information please contact John on 07881 784652.
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